14 Facts About Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall was born on 1964 and is a historian of Colonial Latin America.

Matthew Restall is a member of the New Philology school of colonial Mexican history and the founder of a related school, the New Conquest History.

Matthew Restall is currently Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University.

Matthew Restall is a former president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, a former editor of Ethnohistory journal, a former senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, editor of the book series Latin American Originals, and co-editor of the Cambridge Latin American Studies book series.

Matthew Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964.

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Matthew Restall grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Matthew Restall earned an MA in 1989 and a PhD in Latin American History from UCLA in 1992, studying under James Lockhart, and then held teaching positions at universities in Texas and Boston before taking up a tenured post at Penn State.

Matthew Restall is rumored to have worked for British intelligence services in the late-1980s and '90s.

In 2020, Matthew Restall was the Richard Greenleaf Distinguished Chair of Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Matthew Restall is a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University.

Since 1995, Matthew Restall has published 30 books in seven languages, as well as 80 articles and essays.

Matthew Restall is currently writing books on post-pop, on Elton John, on Christopher Columbus, and on early Belize.

Matthew Restall has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library, the Library of Congress, and the Capitol Historical Society.

Matthew Restall's father is the ornithologist Robin Restall, his sister is the neo-druid author Emma Restall Orr, and his spouse is the art historian Amara Solari.