Allan J. Kuethe

Allan J. Kuethe (born February 1, 1940) is an American historian specializing in Latin American studies. He is a distinguished Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, an honor named for the first president of Texas Tech. Kuethe is the first in the history department honored with a Horn professorship since the late Ernest Wallace, an authority on the history of Texas. Kuethe (pronounced KEY THEE) is also a former chairperson of the Texas Tech history department.

Background

Originally from Waverly in Bremer County in northeastern Iowa, Kuethe in 1962 obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa at Iowa City. He then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, where he received his Master of Arts in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1967. With his doctorate in hand, Kuethe in 1967 he joined the Texas Tech faculty and has taught both Latin America and the history of Western Civilization. He has also instructed outreach and distance education courses.Kuethe also helped to establish the Texas Tech University Center in Seville in Seville, Spain.

Publications

Kuethe's most recent work is Military Reform and Society in New Granada, 1773-1808, published by the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1986, Kuethe published Cuba, 1753-1815: Crown, Military, and Society. He took faculty leave in the 1983-1984 academic year to do research in Spain. He also conducted lengthy research in Colombia.He wrote the chapter "The Colonial Commercial Policy of Philip V and the Atlantic World" in the book Latin America and the Atlantic World.

Family

Kuethe is married to the former Lourdes Ramos, and the couple has four children: John C. Kuethe, Jennifer K. Alameda, Allan R. Kuethe and Christian F. Kuethe.

Mrs. Kuethe, a naturalized American citizen, was born on February 11, 1936 in Havana, Cuba, and attended the University of Havana there, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English as a Foreign Language. She also procured a doctorate in pedagogy, or educational methods, at the Havana branch of the University of Villanova. With a scholarship, she spent a year at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee, having procured a master's degree in social studies. She was then an exchange teacher of Spanish in Brevard County, Florida. In 1961, she became a Cuban political refugee, as she did not wish to reside under the Fidel Castro communist regime in Cuba. She moved to Iowa and began work on a Ph.D. in comparative literature, where she met Allan Kuethe. In the middle 1970s, Mrs. Kuethe returned to teaching. In 1980, she received a Ph.D. from Texas Tech in the field of Spanish literature, with her husband presiding at her hooding ceremony. She helped her husband in the translation of his publications into Spanish.

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