Tonio Andrade
Tonio Adam Andrade is an American military historian and sinologist. A historian of East Asia and the history of East Asian trading networks, he is a professor of history at Emory University.
Biography
Tonio Andrade is the son of material scientist J. D. Andrade and grew up in Salt Lake City. He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Reed College, and went on to study history at Yale University where he had Jonathan Spence as a dissertation advisor. He became interested in the history of China as an undergraduate student and began studying the language at that time.In 2012 Andrade received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the military history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the development of gunpowder weaponry.