Michael Cole Profile

2003: Ph.D. in History, University of Florida.
1995: M.A. in History, University of Florida.
1993: B.A. in History, University of California, San Diego.

Spanish paleography (completed Curso de actualización de paleografía siglo XVI, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - virtual).

The Conquest of Mexico. Native communities in seventeenth-century Mexico and Central America. Colonial Latin America.

Graduate Courses:

• Colonial Latin America (reading seminar), Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Historical Pedagogies (previously Teaching History at the College Level), Florida Gulf Coast University.
• The Age of Discovery (reading seminar), Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Research in Public History (seminar on academic editing), Florida Gulf Coast University.

Undergraduate Courses:

• World Civilization since 1815, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Early Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Intro. Latin American History, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Interdisciplinary Social Science, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Introduction to Latin American Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• Witchcraft in the Early Modern World, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• The Atlantic World to 1810, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• The History of Mexico, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• World Civilization, 1500-1815, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• The Western Tradition, Part I (both classroom and online versions), Florida Gulf Coast University.
• U.S. History Since 1877, Florida Gulf Coast University.
• The Conquest and Colonization of Mexico, University of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University.

Recent:

• "A Spanish Entrepreneur in Early Colonial Mexico." FCH Annals: Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians 24 (June 2018).

Recent:

• 2019: "Millenarian Currents in the Spanish Conquest of Mexico." Presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Feb. 22-23.
• 2018: "Early Central Veracruz: A Hybrid Cultural Landscape." Presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, Florida, Feb. 15-17.