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Jonathan DeCoster, Ph.D.
he/him
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Arts and Humanities
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities
School of Arts and Humanities
Location
Marcil 207
Biddeford Campus
Credentials
Education
Ph.D.
Brandeis ¸ßÇå²»¿¨¸£Àû
2013
M.A.
Brandeis ¸ßÇå²»¿¨¸£Àû
2008
B.A.
¸ßÇå²»¿¨¸£Àû of Massachusetts Boston
2005
Expertise
- Colonial History
- History of Science and Technology
- Native American History
- Unites States history
- Writing instruction
Post-Doctoral Training
Instructional and Learning Design Certificate, UMass Boston
Research
Selected publications
Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico. Oxford and New York: Oxford ¸ßÇå²»¿¨¸£Àû Press, 2020.
"American Indian Discovery." In Firsting in the Early Modern Atlantic World, edited by Lauren Beck, 173–192. New York: Routledge, 2020.
"'Have You Not Heard of Florida?': Jean Ribault, Thomas Stukeley, and the Dream of England's First Overseas Colony." Itinerario 43, no. 3 (December 2019): 397–422.
"Conquered by Indians: Spanish Precedent and French and English Colonialism in North America." Terrae Incognitae 51, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 111–130.