Dr. Stewart Brewer joined the faculty at Dana College in the Fall of 2003. Prior to teaching at Dana, Dr. Brewer taught history courses in New York at SUNY, Albany as an instructor, and also at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

Since arriving at Dana College, Dr. Brewer has taught a wide range of history classes including: World Civilizations I and II, Colonial and Modern Latin America, Mexico, Modern Asia, Russia, and U.S.—Latin American Relations. He also teaches an Introduction to Anthropology and a Political Science course, Comparative Government.

At Dana College Dr. Brewer has participated on the LARP Committee, the Academic Computing Committee, and is currently the Co-Director of the Morton Scholars Honors Program. In addition, Dr. Brewer was named the Dana College Professor of the Year in 2004-05, and is included in the 10th Annual Edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers®, 2005-06.

In the spring of 2006, Praeger Security International (PSI) published Dr. Brewer’s book Borders and Bridges: A History of U.S.—Latin American Relations. He is currently working on other projects related to Colonial Guatemalan history, including a chapter for an anthology entitled The Ch’orti’ Region Past and Present, which will be published by the University of Florida Press in 2007.

Dr. Brewer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Brigham Young University, with minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies. He also earned his Master’s Degree from Brigham Young University in Anthropology, with specific emphasis in Classic Mayan archaeology, epigraphy, and ethnohistory. He received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Albany, State University of New York. His doctoral coursework focused on international and cultural/social history, with a geographic emphasis on Latin America and the Atlantic World.

He successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation—Spanish Imperialism and the Ch’orti’ Maya, (1524-1700); Institutional Effects of the Spanish Colonial System on Spanish and Indian Communities in the Corregimiento of Chiquimula de la Sierra, Guatemala—in the fall of 2002.

Dr. Brewer is an avid reader who enjoys a diverse selection of books including history, classical literature, and fantasy/science fiction. He listens to a surprisingly broad range of musical genres, and he likes to travel and spend time with his wife and daughter.

“ This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—William Shakespeare

Dr. Stewart Brewer
Associate Professor of History
sbrewer@dana.edu
402.426-7240
Office: DC 312