Leslie Michael Bethell was born on 12 February 1937 and is an English historian and university professor, who specialises in the study of 19th- and 20th-century Latin America, focusing on Brazil in particular.
11 Facts About Leslie Bethell
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Leslie Bethell received both his Bachelor of Arts and doctorate in history at the University of London.
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Leslie Bethell is emeritus professor of Latin American history, University of London, and emeritus fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
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Leslie Bethell has been associated with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for many years, most recently as senior scholar of the Brazil Institute from 2010 to 2015.
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Leslie Bethell was a fellow of St Antony's College and founding director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2007.
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Leslie Bethell was lecturer, reader and professor of Latin American history in the University of London from 1966 to 1992 and director of the University of London Institute of Latin American Studies from 1987 to 1992.
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Leslie Bethell is the sole editor of the twelve-volume Cambridge History of Latin America, a massive attempt at compiling and integrating the existing scholarship of Latin American studies.
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Leslie Bethell was elected a socio correspondente [one of twenty foreign members] of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2010.
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Leslie Bethell was nominated to fill the vacancy left by the death of the Portuguese author Jose Saramago, and was only the second English person to have been elected to the position, after the philosopher Herbert Spencer in 1898.
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Leslie Bethell was elected as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2004.
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Leslie Bethell was awarded the Ordem Nacional do Merito Cientifico by the Brazilian government in 2010.