Stuart B. Schwartz is Professor of History at Yale University and the former Master of Ezra Stiles College. He studied at Middlebury College, where he received his undergraduate degree, and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He then went on to study Latin American History at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. (1968). He is one of the leading specialists on the History of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil and on the history of Early Modern expansion.