Rate My Professor George Andrews

George Reid Andrews is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the faculty in 1981 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983, to Professor and University Center for International Studies Research Professor in 1991, and to Distinguished Professor in 2008. Andrews has served three separate terms as Chair of the Department of History. Before arriving at Pittsburgh, he held the position of Staff Associate at the Social Science Research Council in New York from 1978 to 1981. His academic training includes a BA in History from Dartmouth College in 1972, an MA in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974, and a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978.

Andrews specializes in the history of Latin America, Afro-Latin America, and comparative race relations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics including Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Afro-Latin America, Brazil, Race in Latin America, State and Society in Latin America, Latin American Revolutions, Urban Latin America, and U.S.-Latin American Relations. Among his major publications are the books *Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000* (Harvard University Press, 2016), *Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay* (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), *Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000* (Oxford University Press, 2004), *Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), and *The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900* (University of Wisconsin Press, 1980). He co-edited *Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America 1870-1960* (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with Paulina Laura Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, and *Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction* (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Alejandro de la Fuente. Andrews has received the 2025 Distinguished Service Award from the Conference on Latin American History, the Provost’s Excellence in Mentoring Award (2016), the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (1996), Fulbright Visiting Professor at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (2014), the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard University (2012), Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), NEH Fellowship (1995), Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship (2001), and Arthur Whitaker Book Prizes (2005, 2011). His scholarship on Afrodescendants in the Southern Cone and broader Latin America has established Afro-Latin American history as a key interdisciplinary field.