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Philip Wayne Powell
Philip Wayne Powell (1913-1987) was an American historian specializing in the Spanish colonial history of the American Southwest.
He was born in Chino, California, attended Occidental College and transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his B.A. in 1936. He then undertook graduate studies at Berkeley, taking Hispanic studies with Herbert I. Priestley and Herbert E. Bolton. Powell completed his Ph.D. in 1941, and joined the Army.
In 1943 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1944
of a heart attack in Santa Barbara on September 17, 1987. The Philip and Maria Powell Prize was established in the History Department at UCSB to recognize outstanding graduate students in Latin American or Iberian history. 
Further reading.
- Folsom, Raphael B. “Philip Wayne Powell, the Cold War, and the Conquest of Northern Mexico.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 31, no. 2, 2015, pp. 287–304. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/msem.2015.31.2.287.