Woodrow Borah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Woodrow Borah

American historian of Mexico

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Utica, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1999

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Woodrow Wilson Borah (23 December 1912 in Utica, Mississippi – 10 December 1999 in Berkeley, CA) was a U.S.
historian of colonial Mexico, whose research contributions on demography, economics, and social structure made him a major Latin Americanist.
With his 1999 death "disappears the last great figure in the generation that presided over the vast expansion of the Latin American scholarly field in the United States during the years following World War II." With colleagues at University of California, Berkeley who came to be known as the "Berkeley School" of Latin American history, Borah pursued projects to gather data from archives on indigenous populations, colonial enterprises, and "land-life" relations that revolutionized the study of Latin American history.