Kenneth Mills, a Professor of History, was appointed Director of LAS@UofT in July, 2005. Professor Mills taught at Oxford, Liverpool and, for a decade at Princeton University, before joining the faculty at the UofT in 2003. He is a specialist in the history of colonial Latin America and the early modern Spanish world, with a current emphasis on religious change and the proliferation of local Christianities in Spanish South America. His publications include An Evil Lost to View? 1994, Idolatry and Its Enemies: Extirpation and Colonial Andean Religion, 1640-1750 1997, two sourcebooks of translated primary texts and visual images for the classroom, Colonial Spanish America 1998 with William B. Taylor, and Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History 2002, with William B. Taylor and Sandra Lauderdale Graham, and, most recently, two co-edited collections with Anthony Grafton Conversion: Old Worlds and New and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing , both 2003. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Colonial Latin American Review since 1998. Professor Mills is currently writing a book around the transatlantic journey of a Castilian image-maker and alms-gatherer, Diego de Ocana (c. 1570-1608).