Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-7394
E-Mail: mcole@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1 - Office 4

Assistant Professor, Latin American History
mcole@fgcu.edu 

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

Research and teaching interests: native communities of colonial Latin America; colonial Mexico; colonial Central America

Courses offered:

EUH 1001 The Western Tradition, Part I
HIS 3930 The Conquest and Colonization of Mexico
HIS 4920 The Atlantic World to 1810
HIS 4920 Witchcraft in the Early Modern World
HIS 5930 Teaching History at the College Level
LAH 3130 Colonial Latin America
LAH 3430 History of Mexico
LAH 6137 Colonial Latin America
LAH 6915 Research in Latin American History
LAH 6939 Seminar in Latin American History
WOH 1023 World Civilization 1500-1815
WOH 6939 Seminar in World History

Recent publications and conference papers:

"Tlacotalpa and Puctla: Native Strategies of Community Defense in Two Colonial Mexican Villages," SECOLAS Annals: Journal of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, 2003

"Peripheral Communities, Colonial Lifeline: Indian Villages along New Spain's Primary Route from Veracruz to Mexico City during the Seventeenth Century," SECOLAS Annals: Journal of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, 2001

"A Hypothesis on the Etymology of the Placename Withlacoochee." Presented at the Florida Conference of Historians annual meeting, Jacksonville, Florida, March 2008.

"'To Teach the Boys and Girls the Christian Doctrine in the Mexican Tongue:' A Native Response to Spanish Policies of Hispanization in Colonial Xalapa." Presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2004

"Tlacotalpa and Puctla: Native Strategies of Community Defense in Two Colonial Mexican Villages." Presented at the 50th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2003

"Peripheral Communities, Colonial Lifeline: Indian Villages along New Spain's Primary Route from Veracruz to Mexico during the Seventeenth Century." Presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies in Veracruz, Mexico, 2001

"Brujería, politica local y procedimientos judiciales en los pueblos de indios: el caso de Texíguat, Honduras, siglo XVII." Presented at the V Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2000

Grants and awards

Fulbright IIE García-Robles Dissertation Grant (1999-2000)