Kenneth J. Andrien, a member of Ohio State University's History department, specializes in Colonial Latin American history, focusing specifically on the Andean region from the 16th to the 19th centuries. He received his B.A. in history from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) in 1973 with honors in history and general scholarship. He later took his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) in history from Duke University. He has written Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty of Peru in the Seventeenth Century (1985), The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The State and Regional Development (1996), and his most recent book is Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness Under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825 (2001). He has also co-edited (with Rolena Adorno) Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century (1991) and (with Lyman L. Johnson) The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (1994). In addition, he has published numerous articles in journals such as Past and Present, Hispanic American Historical Review, and Journal of Latin American Studies.