Allen Wells

Affiliation: History
Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History

Allen Wells came to Bowdoin in 1988 after teaching nine years in North Carolina. His scholarship has focused on modern Mexican history, especially Yucatán, the history of commodities, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he offers a range of courses in colonial and modern Latin American history. Originally from New York, he received his M.A (1974) and Ph.D. (1979) in History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his B.A. (1973) in History and Latin American Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

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Education

  • PhD, History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • MA, History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • BA, History and Latin American Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton