Kenneth Mills was born in Canada, and is the J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. His books include Idolatry and its Enemies, Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History (with William B. Taylor and Sandra Lauderdale Graham), Conversion: Old Worlds and New and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing (both edited with Anthony Grafton) and the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation, coordinated with Evonne Levy. His essays have appeared in Past & Present, the Colonial Latin American Review, the Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, and the Cambridge History of Christianity. Kenneth’s Dispatches (on the Substack platform) feature his occasional writing, paintings and photographs. He lives in Detroit.
Kenneth has served on the Editorial Board of the Colonial Latin American Review since 1998. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of two innovative book series: The Iberian Religious World, published by Brill; and Catholic Practice in the Americas, published by Fordham University Press.
He regularly serves on a number of selection bodies and takes on evaluative assignments for various presses (including, most recently, Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of California Press, and Stanford University Press), other publishers and scholarly journals, and also the European Commission, American Council of Learned Societies, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (based in Sydney, Australia) and on the Comite Consultativo of the Nueva Corónica (Escuela de Historia, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima, Peru). He has served on the Academic Council of Somaiya Vidyavihar, university in Mumbai, India.
