Autor/-in: David Bushnell

David Bushnell. (May 14, 1923 - September 3, 2010) was an American academic and Latin American historian who has been called "The Father of the Colombianists. " Bushnell, one of the first Americans to study Colombia, was considered one of the world's leading experts on the history of Colombia. He regarded it as one of the least studied countries in Latin America by academic scholars in the United States and Europe, and was considered the first American historian to study and introduce Colombian history as an academic field in the United States.