Education
University of Iowa; University of Florida.
University of Iowa; University of Florida.
He is a distinguished Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Technical University in Lubbock, Texas, an honor named for the first president of Texas Technology Kuethe is the first in the history department honored with a Horn professorship since Ernest Wallace, an authority on the history of Texas. Kuethe (pronounced KEY THEE) is also a former chairperson of the Texas Technical history department.
Originally from Waverly in Bremer County in northeastern Iowa, Kuethe in 1962 obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa at Iowa City.
He then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida, where he received his Master of Arts in 1963 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1967. Kuethe joined the Texas Technical faculty in 1967 and has taught both Latin America history and the history of western civilization.
He has also instructed outreach and distance education courses. Kuethe also helped to establish the Texas Technical University Center in Seville in Seville, Spain.
Kuethe is married to the former Lourdes Ramos, a Cuban refugee.
She has helped him in the translation of his publications into Spanish. The couple has four children.