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Jonathan DeCoster, Ph.D.
he/him
Assistant Teaching Professor of History
Location
Marcil 207
Biddeford Campus
Credentials
Education
Ph.D.
Brandeis University
2013
M.A.
Brandeis University
2008
B.A.
University 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 University 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.