Alan Knight is a professor and researcher of Latin American history and former professor at the University of Oxford in England. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government.
Alan Knight (historian)
St Antony's College, Oxford
St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politics, and area studies relative to Europe, Russia, former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia.
Entrance to the old building at St Antony's College
Sir Antonin Besse, whose gift enabled the college's foundation.
Saint Anthony the Great, after whom the college is named.
Lord Dahrendorf presided over much of the college's expansion in the 1990s.