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Jonathan DeCoster, Ph.D.

he/him

Assistant Teaching Professor of History

Phi Alpha Theta Advisor

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.