Timothy Coates
Professor
Office Hours: Fall - T/W/R 2-4
Phone: 843.953.8031
E-mail: coatest@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://coatest.people.cofc.edu
Timothy Coates is Professor of History at the College of Charleston and formerly the Vasco da Gama Visiting Professor of Portuguese History at Brown University. He has conducted research in Portugal, India, and Macau on grants from the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Fundacao Oriente, the Luso-American Development Foundation, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Professor Coates organized two international conferences at the College of Charleston to celebrate the 500th anniversaries of Vasco da Gama's arrival in India and Pedro Cabral in Brazil.
Education
1993 - Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota
1988 - M.A., History, University of Minnesota
1976 - M.A., Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Arizona
Research Interests
Portugal and Portuguese Empire, Early Modern History, Colonial Latin America
He has published in a number of journals and contributed essays to several collections such as The Final Argument (Kagay, ed.).
Currently he is editing and translating the essays from the seminar on forced colonization in Angola; Castro Marim: The Town that Sin Created for publication in English; and volume 1415:1-2 of Portuguese Studies Review, a collection of papers on the Portuguese Atlantic.
Coates translated and edited a 1695 missionary work, Conversion of the King of Bissau for use in his World History classes.
Courses Taught
First Encounters in the Early Modern Period
Colonial Latin America
Modern Latin America
Sugar and Slaves in Colonial Brazil
Golden Age of Iberia
Modern Brazil
Honors and Awards
For his work promoting Portuguese history and culture in the United States, in 2001 the President of Portugal awarded him the title and medal of "Grand Commander of the Order of São Tiago da Espada."
2007, 2005 Research and travel award from the College of Charleston and History Department.
2002 Fellowship awarded by the National Archives of Portugal to conduct research.
Publications
Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonizers in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755. Stanford University Press, 2001.
His second book on internal exile within Portugal was co-Author with Geraldo Pieroni, Castro Marim: Da vila do couto à vila de sal, 1550-1850
(Castro Marim: The Town that Sin Created, 1550-1850) Lisboa: Sá da Costa Editora, 2002.
Journal Articles:
"The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic," Portuguese Studies Review, 15:1-2 (2005), forthcoming.
"The Imperial Prison of Luanda and 'Effective Occupation' of Angola," Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 15/16 (2010): 79-114.
"The Early Modern Portuguese Empire: A Commentary on Recent Studies," The Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII: 1 (Spring 2006): 83-90.
