Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University,[1] the Chair of the Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies,[2] and the former Master of Ezra Stiles College.
[4] Yale President Richard Levin has referred to Professor Schwartz as, "perhaps the most outstanding scholar of Brazilian history" in the world.
[5] His scholarly publications include Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (1973), Early Latin America (1983), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), as editor, A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil (1979), Implicit Understandings (1994), Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico (2000), Cambridge History of Peoples of the Americas.
In 2008 Schwartz published All Can Be Saved: Religious Toleration and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale University Press).
[12] Schwartz was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[13] and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.