Concentration Adviser

R. Douglas Cope, Associate Professor of History

Professor Cope is an associate professor in the History Department.  He is currently writing a manuscript analyzing the informal economy in eighteenth-century Mexico City.  This study represents and deepens his long-standing focus on multi-ethnic societies in the Americas, and particularly on the lived experience of the urban poor, as they dealt with their unfavorable position in the colonial hierarchy.  His teaching interests extend still further, embracing Mexico and Central America from pre-Columbian times to the present day, as well as the Atlantic world in the early modern era. 

As undergraduate concentration advisor, Professor Cope tries to encourage students to expand the scope of their interests, and to take advantage of the rich Latin American offerings at Brown: the wide array of courses in nearly two dozen disciplines, the Center’s calendar of events (movies, lectures, and workshops), and resources such as the John Carter Brown Library.

Fall 2007 Classes:

HIST 0970Z - Atlantic Pirates
HIST 1620 - Colonial Latin America

Spring 2008 Classes:

HIST 1640 - Clash of Empires in Latin America
HIST 1973X - The Maya in the Modern World