Historians of Colombia

Pedro de Aguado (1513 or 1538 – late 16th or early 17th century) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who spent around 15 years in the New Kingdom of Granada, preaching to the indigenous people. During this time he collected source material for a history of the region, and began a manuscript, Recopilación historial, which he completed in Spain between 1576 and 1583 but was unable to publish. The manuscript was used by other historians, but was not published until the twentieth century.

John Leddy Phelan (1924 - 24 July 1976) was a scholar of colonial Spanish America and the Philippines. He spent the bulk of his scholarly career at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following his death, his notable former graduate student, James Lockhart, wrote a candid obituary of his mentor.

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.

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (born Huntington, New York) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She authored the book Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment that was published by Duke University Press. In the book she identifies two crucial turning points in the history of the factories of Antioquia: the first being the radical unionization of previously unorganized workers, the second being when technological innovations and the rise of newly trained industrial engineers changed the dynamic of worker and management relations. Such issues are important in the economic history of Colombia and the history of the Latin American economy more generally. The book won the 2001 Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History, which "is awarded annually for the best English-language book on any aspect of Latin American History,"as well as the Allan Sharlin Prize of the Social Science History Association. She published in Duke University Press's series of readers on particular countries The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics in 2016.

Malcolm Deas was an English historian specializing in the study of Latin America in general and Colombia in particular. He studied modern history at New College, Oxford, and went on to become a Fellow of All Souls College and St Antony's College. He taught at Oxford University for nearly five decades until his retirement in 2008. He was one of the key figures at the Latin American Centre in Oxford, founded by Sir Raymond Carr in the 1960s.

Ann Twinam (born Cairo, Illinois 1946) is an American historian of colonial Latin America. Twinam graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1968, and earned her Master's (1972) and doctorate (1976) in History from Yale University. Her dissertation was published as a monograph in 1982 as Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia (University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1982) and in a Spanish translation, Comerciantes y Labradores: Las Raíces del Espiritu Empresarial en Antioquia: 1763-1810 (Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, 1985). She is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She taught at the University of Cincinnati from 1974 to 1998, where she received tenure in 1981. She won the 2016 Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association, the Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History, the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, and the Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize in Colonial Latin American History from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS). She won the 2000 Thomas F. McGann Book Prize from RMCLAS for Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America and Honorable Mention in 2001 Bolton Prize from the Conference on Latin American History. This work was translated to Spanish as Vidas públicas, secretos privados: Género, honor, sexualidad e ilegitimidad en la Hispanoamérica colonial Twinam was Chair of the Conference on Latin American History (2003–04), the professional organization of historians of Latin America, affiliated with the American Historical Association.

John Michael Francis (born 1968) is a Canadian historian.