Complex sentence: Allan J. Kuethe (born February 1,1940) is an American historian specializing in Latin America and a distinguished Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the first in the history department so honored since the late Ernest Wallace.
Split into simpler sentences: Allan J. Kuethe (born February 1,1940) is an American historian specializing in Latin American studies. He is a distinguished Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the first in the history department so honored since the late Ernest Wallace.