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Malcolm Deas

Malcolm Douglas Deas, OBE (24 April 1941 – 29 July 2023) was an English historian specialising in the study of Latin America in general and Colombia in particular. During the 1960s, he co-founded the Latin American Centre at St. Antony's College with Sir Raymond Carr and served as its director on numerous occasions. His tenure at Oxford University spanned nearly five decades until his retirement in 2008. During this time, he played a key role in expanding the Latin American collections at the Bodleian Library and taught distinguished Colombian historians, including Margarita Garrido, Jorge Orlando Melo, Eduardo Posada Carbó and Marco Palacios. Provided by Wikipedia