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Mills, Kenneth, D.Phil. Oxford
Professor & Chair, St. George Campus
(416) 978-3364

Office: SS 2073
Field: Colonial Latin American, early modern Spanish world, anthropological history

Professor Mills is a historian of colonial Latin America whose research and teaching engages with the late medieval and early modern Spanish world. Principal interests include the social and anthropological history of religion and cultural dynamism, Catholic Christian evangelisation and its aftermaths, and interactive indigenous responses and histories. He is the author of Idolatry and Its Enemies (1997) and An Evil Lost to View? (1994). He has prepared a sourcebook of primary texts and visual images, Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History (2002), with William B. Taylor and Sandra Lauderdale Graham.  Recent work includes Conversion: Old Worlds and New, and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (both 2003) co-edited with Anthony Grafton, his Idolatry and Its Enemies (1997). Kenneth Mills is writing a book around the journey of Castilian alms-collector and image-maker, Diego de Ocaña (c. 1570-1608).