CURRICULUM VITAE
NOBLE DAVID COOK cookn@fiu.edu
EDUCATION:
University of Texas, Ph.D. 1973
University of Florida, M.A. 1964
University of Florida, B.A. 1962
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Florida International University, Professor 1992---, Chair, 1995-98
University of Bridgeport, Instructor-Professor, 1969-92
Yale University, Visiting Professor, Part Time 1989-90
Universidad Católica del Perú, Fulbright Professor, 1974, 1984
University of Texas, Teaching Assistant, 1964-65
University of Florida, Teaching Assistant, 1963-64
ACADEMIC HONORS:
Research Excellence, President's Award, Florida International University, 2000
Corresponding Member, Academia Nacional de la Historia del Peru, 1997—
Teaching Excellence Award, Florida International University, 1997
William Bentson Senior Endowed Professorship, University of Bridgeport 1988-92
Henry Littlefield Junior Endowed Chair, University of Bridgeport 1979-82
Visiting Fellow, Yale University, Latin American Studies, 1979-80, 1981;
History Department, 1985-87; History Division, Yale Medical School, 1991-92
Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society, Phi Alpha Theta Honorary Society
FOUNDATION GRANTS:
American Council of
Learned Societies, 1998-99
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, 1991-92
Fulbright,
research in Spain, 1990-91
University of Florida,
Center for Latin American Studies, Library Research Grant, Summer 1989
Mellon
Foundation, University of Bridgeport Summer Research Grants, Spain, 1982, 1986,
1987
Fulbright,
research in Spain, 1985
Fulbright, teaching and research in
Peru, 1984
Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research, Peru, 1977
NEH, Summer Seminar in
Anthropological Theory, University of Illinois, 1976
Fulbright, teaching and research in
Peru, 1974
Doherty Foundation, dissertation
research in Peru, 1968
Fulbright-Hays, dissertation
research in Spain, 1967
NDEA, Title VI, University of Texas,
Portuguese Language, 1965-66, 1966-67
BOOKS
[Noble David Cook]:
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2000 "Juicios
Secretos de Dios" Epidemias y despoblación indígena en Hispanoamérica colonial, with W. George
Lovell, rev. ed., Quito: Editorial Abya-Yala.
1998 Born to Die: Disease and New
World Conquest, 1492-1650. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
1998 The Discovery and Conquest
of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León, translated and edited with
Alexandra Parma Cook. Durham: Duke
University Press.
1998 Relación de la vida
y milagros de Francisco
Solano [1618], by Luis Jerónimo
de Oré. Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica
del Perú.
1992 “Secret Judgments of
God" Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish
2001pb America,
with W. George Lovell. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press.
1992 Un caso de bigamia
transatlántica, with Alexandra Parma Cook. Madrid: ANAYA & Mario Muchnik.
1992
pb "Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance:" A Case
of Transatlantic Bigamy,
1991hc with
Alexandra Parma Cook. Durham: Duke University Press.
1985 Numeración general de todas las personas...de Lima, aZo de 1700. Lima: COFIDE.
1982 The People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study. Boulder, Col.: Westview
Press.
1981 Demographic Collapse: Indian
Peru, 1520-1620. New York: Cambridge University Press.
1975 Tasa
de la visita general de Francisco de Toledo. Lima: San Marcos.
1968 Padrón de los
indios de Lima en 1613. Lima: San Marcos.
BOOK
CHAPTERS (sample):
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2003 "Introducción: visitas
en el mundo andino,"
in David J. Robinson, ed., Collaguas II: Lari Collaguas, economía, sociedad y población, 1604-1605. Lima: Universidad Católica, xv-xxxv.
2003 “Epidemias en el mundo andino durante el siglo XVI,” in
José Hernández
Palomo, ed., Enfermedad
y muerte en América y Andalucia
(Siglos XVI-XX).
Seville: Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos, 37-55.
2002 "'Tomando posesión,' Luis Gerónimo de Oré y el retorno de los franciscanos a las doctrinas del valle
del Colca," in Rafael Varón Gabai and
Javier Flores Espinosa, eds., El hombre y los
Andes. Homenaje a Franklin Pease, Lima:
Universidad Católica,
2:889-903.
2002 "The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or
Spaniard?" in Kenneth Andrien, ed., The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America,
Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 64-83.
2001 "La población del mundo andino (1520-1700)," in Manuel Burga,
ed., Historia de América Andina,
Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, 2:259-88.
2000 "Epidemias y
dinámica demográfica,"
in Frank Moya Pons and
Franklin Pease, eds., Historia General de
America Latina , Paris: UNESCO, 2:301-18.
2000 "Enfermedad y despoblación en el Caribe, 1492-1518," in W. George Lovell and Noble David Cook, eds., "Juicios Secretos de Dios" Epidemias y despoblación indígena en Hispanoamérica colonial, rev. ed., Quito: Editorial Abya-Yala, 31-61.
1998 “Introducción,” Relación de la vida
y milagros de Francisco
Solano [1618], by Luis Jerónimo
de Oré, pp.
ix-xxix. Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica
del Perú.
1997 "Disease and the Depopulation of
Hispaniola, 1492-1518," in Kenneth F. Kiple and
Stephen V. Beck, eds., Biological Consequences of the European Expansion,
1450-1800. Brookfiled,
VT: Ashgate/Valorium.
1997 “Cabanas
y Collaguas en la era prehispánica,” in Rafael Varón Gabai and
Javier Flores Espinosa, eds., Arqueología, antropología e historia
en los Andes. Homenaje a Maria
Rostworowski. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 379-98.
1996 Contributor for the multi-volume Charles
Scribner's Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by
Barbara A. Tenenbaum, 35 items.
1995 Contributor for the third edition of the
American Historical Association’sGuide to
Historical Literature, Section 35: "Native Peoples of the
Americas," section editor: Frederick E. Hoxie, 75 items "Highland
South America."
1995 "South America Ethnohistory,"
Handbook Latin American Studies54:100-25.
JOURNAL
ARTICLES (sample):
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2003 "The Corregidores
of the Colca Valley, Peru: Imperial Administration in
an Andean Region,” Anuario de Estudios Hispanoamericanos (Seville)
60:2: 413-39.
2003 “Una primera epidemia de viruela en 1493?,” Revista de Indias
63:227: 49-64.
2002 "Sickness, Starvation, and Death in
Early Hispaniola," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32:3:
349-86.
2001 "Alvar
NúZez
Cabeza de Vaca: A Major
New Edition," Colonial Latin American Review 10:1(June): 129-32.
2000 "Franklin Pease Garcia-Yrigoyan (1939-1999)," Hispanic American Historical
Review 70(May).
1999 "El impacto
de las enfermedades en el mundo andino del siglo XVI," Histórica 23:2: 341-65.
1993 "Disease and the Depopulation of
Hispaniola, 1492-1518,"
Colonial Latin American Review. 2: 213-46.
1992 "Epidemias
en Triana (Sevilla,
1660-1865)," with José Hernández Palomo,
Annali
della FacoltB di Economia e Commercio
della UniversitB di Bari. 31: 53-81.
1992 "Beyond the Martyrs of Florida: The
Versatile Career of Luis Gerónimo
de Oré,"
The Florida
Historical Quarterly. 71: 169-87.
1990 "Varieties of Andean Reality: Recent
Perspectives," Latin American Research Review. 25: 206-16.
1989 "Patrones de
migración indígena en el virreinato del Perú: mitayos, mingas y
forasteros," Histórica. 13: 125-52.
1982 "Population Data for Indian Peru:
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Hispanic
American Historical
Review. 62: 73-120.
1978 "Recent Research Trends in Peruvian
Historical Demography,"
Latin American
Population
History Newsletter. 1: 3-9.
1978 "La visita
de los Conchucos por Cristóval
Ponce de León,
1543," Historia y Cultura 9/10: 23-46.
1977 "Estimaciones
sobre la población del Perú en el momento de la conquista,"
Histórica. 1: 37-60.
1976 "Les Indiens
immigres a Lima au debut de XVIIe
siecle," Cahiers des Ameriques
Latines. 13/14:
33-50.
1974 "La
población indígena de Veguetá, 1623-1683,"
Historia y Cultura. 8: 81-90.
1969 "Libro de
cargos del tesorero Alonso Riquelme con el rescate de Atahualpa,"
Humanidades. 2: 41-88.
1965 "La
población indígena en el Perú colonial,"
Anuario del Instituto
de Investigaciones Históricas (Rosario, Argentina). 8: 73-110.
BOOKS
IN PROGRESS:
"People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley"
"The Impact of the Plague on Society and Culture in Late 16th-Century Seville" with Alexandra Parma Cook
"The Barrio of Triana and America: a Socio-economic Study" with Alexandra Parma Cook
"Luis Gerónimo de Oré: the Franciscans and the New World"
RECENT
GRADUATE COURSES:
Readings Seminar in Atlantic Civilization
Colonial Latin American History
Modern Latin American History
Population History of Latin America
Andean Ethnohistory
Research: Death in the Port Cities of the Atlantic World
Research: Migration and the Port Cities of the Atlantic World
Readings Seminar in Imperial Spain, 1469-1713
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Colonial Latin America
Disease and History
Andean Ethnohistory
Atlantic History, Reading in Theory and Research
Historical Demography
Imperial Spain, 1469-1713
Triana and Seville, Spain
Brief resume of the academic trajectory of N.D. Cook (2004)
Research is an ongoing process of discovery. It is a quest for a knowledge and understanding of basic patterns, which will assist building a better present existence and a more secure future. By nature, research is exciting for the student/scholar engaged in the search who is engaged in weighing and evaluating the evidence of the past, and testing it against what is known of the subject, and then moves on to theorize about probability, knowing full well that certainty is a relative value that can only be approached. Key to the quality of research is the viability of the research model, the excellence of the research proposal, the effectiveness of its presentation, the ease of its testing, and the ability of the researcher to separate valid from invalid findings, and probe deeper for new and more trustworthy evidence. All these are skills, but collectively they become an art, that can and should be introduced into the student/public environment. For research to be meaningful to all but a handful of peers it is necessary to bring the results coherently and persuasively, into public space. That space for the university researcher tends to be the classroom, but it can and also include the broader public audience. Knowledge confined to the ivory tower is dissipated, and largely wasted. It must come to the public in whatever form: via articles, books, movies, public debate.
My initial research, the doctoral dissertation (1973), seemed to focus on a relatively narrow subject, the size and changes of the Amerindian population of Peru following contact with the Europeans in the sixteenth century. But during that research which began in the Archive of the Indies in Seville in 1967 I found "lost" manuscripts and edited three book-length volumes of basic sources on population history that continue to serve as references for research, and are regularly cited: the census of the Indians living in the city of Lima in 1614 (1968); the south Andean tribute and tax assessment of Viceroy Francisco de Toledo of the 1570s (1975); and the population census of the inhabitants of the capital city of Lima in 1700 (1985). The culminating text of the first stage of my research/teaching career was the Cambridge University Press monograph on the size and changes in the native population of Peru in the century after Old World contact (1981), an example of historical demography and quantitative history applied to colonial Latin America. That work remains a standard, and it cited in all the secondary literature.
A second stage in the research itinerary was the shift to ethnohistory beginning in 1974 during a Fulbright research and teaching fellowship for Peru, based in an examination of the native peoples of one south Peruvian highland valley. The first published result of the shift appeared in an edited volume on the Colca valley (1977), and the second was a monograph on the Valley's native population, from the 1530s to 1961 (1982), as well as a more recent book chapters (1997) on the origin of the ethnic entities that made up the valley in the time of the Incas. A book-length monograph is presently being revised.
A third stage came at about the time of my appointment at Florida International University (1992), with a shift in focus to social history and micro history with a study of one of the Spanish conquerors and settlers of the Colca Valley, whose career was changed by a second marriage and charges of bigamy, which forced his return to Spain, and resulted in a series of court cases that extended beyond his lifetime (with Alexandra Parma Cook 1991, Spanish translation 1992). His history, and that of his two wives, which spans much of the sixteenth century, provides a human emphasis that tells much of concepts of honor, marriage and family, acquisition of wealth, and the Spanish legal and administrative system. Its popularity as a required secondary reading in courses around the country can be seen as it approaches a fifth paperback edition. I am presently working with Alexandra Parma Cook on two other single volume microhistories, which shift in geographical focus to Andalusia in Spain and the Americas. One is on the sailor's district of Triana, Seville; the other, associated with my continuing interest in disease and history, is on the plague in Seville in the late sixteenth century. This research was supported by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in 1998-99, and the monograph is under way.
My interest in the relation between disease and history continues as a significant part of my research and teaching career. In 1992 I co-edited with W. George Lovell a series of chapters on epidemic disease in colonial Spanish America (1992, Spanish translation 2000). Then in late 1998 I published a text in the recent Cambridge University series in "New Approaches to the Americas" on the question of disease and New World conquest, in the first century and a half following contact. In that work I examine the experience of the entire Americas, English, French and Dutch as well as Spanish and Portuguese. The work, which I expected to be controversial, as I raise thorny issues of causation and moral implications, has already been reviewed extensively and largely positively, and has been adopted as a reader for many university classes. More recently I have published two articles on disease and disaster on Hispaniola in the second Columbus expedition, 1493-1496, as the result of recently "discovered" documents which link smallpox to some of the ten young natives Columbus took to Spain during his return from the first expedition. A Spanish translation of the Born to Die text should be published in Madrid in 2005. A session at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, DC was largely devoted to arguments posed in Born to Die. For my critique see www.fiu.edu/~history/CookAHA04.pdf .
When I complete the three major monographs currently "in progress" I will devote closer research attention to another topic that continues to intrigue my research interests. It represents a shift to religious issues, largely the Franciscan missions, catechisms, dictionaries, and the process of indoctrination, as largely seen through the life of a single person, born in the Andean city of Guamanga, Peru, in the mid-1540s. Significant research and publications resulting from it have already appeared (1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002). Most important in this shift is my edited book (1998) based on the original 1614 work of Luis Gerónimo de Oré on the life and miracles of the Franciscan missionary Francisco Solano. Oré's text provided part of the basis the canonization of Solano. Future research on Oré and the Franciscans will take me back to Spain, then the Vatican Secret Archives in Rome, and finally to Concepción, Chile, where Oré died in 1630. Oré spent part of his career in Florida when he was General Commissioner of his order, and wrote a history here. A strong narrative of his life and work should be exciting for the classroom.
Also published in late 1998 is the co-edited translation (with Alexandra Parma Cook) of Pedro de Cieza de León's Discovery and Conquest of Peru. This is the first English edition of his manuscript finished around 1551, that was lost until the middle 1980s. The text provides very interesting reading material for a comparative study with the conquest of Mexico, especially that of Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Our translation was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Joint Center for Latin American Studies of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new translation of the of now complete part two of Cieza de León's history, the "Realm of the Incas" is being considered. When done it should prove to be an invaluable companion to the study of the Incas by Juan de Betanzos, contemporary of Cieza de León.