• Lawrence A. Clayton
  Professor
  Ph.D., Tulane University, 1972
  
  lclayton@bama.ua.edu
  lclayton@simplecom.net
  
  Lawrence Clayton's Web Page
  
  

  Research Interests:

  • Latin America
  • Conquest and Early Settlement
  • Andean Region
  • Cuba
  • History of the Christian Church

  Courses Recently Taught:

  • The Spanish Frontier in North America (HY 429/529)
  • History of the Christian Church to 1500 (HY 235)
  • History of the Christian Church Since 1500 (HY 236)
  • Age of Exploration and Conquest (HY 471/571)
  • History of Religion in Latin America (HY 476/576)
  • The Iberian Atlantic World (HY 670)

Recent Publications:


• Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2011
• W. R. Grace & Co., los aʼnos formativos, 1850-1930. Lima, Peru: Thalassa, 2008.
• History of Modern Latin America. Co-authored with Michael L. Conniff. Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt, Brace, 1999. 2nd edition, 2004 by Thomson, Wadsworth.
• Los EE.UU. y el Perú: 1800-1995. Lima, Peru: Centro Peruano de Estudios Internaciones y Xerox del Peru, 1998. 2nd edition, June 2002.
• Peru and the United States: The Condor and the Eagle. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Current Project:

• Apostle to the Indians: The Life of Bartolomé de las Casas for Cambridge University Press, 2012
• Bartolomé de las Casas in Documents for Bedford/St. Martin’s.
• The Air War over the Bay of Pigs, April, 1961.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• Pew Evangelical Scholars Program Fellowship, 1999-2000.
• Fulbright Senior Research/Lecturing Award, University of Lima, Aug.-Dec., 1988
• Fulbright Senior Lecturing Award, University of Costa Rica, Aug.-Dec., 1983.
• Choice, Outstanding Academic Book, 1995, The De Soto Chronicles