TIMOTHY J. COATES ( Portugal and Portuguese Empire, Early Modern History, Colonial Latin America) is an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston who received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1993. 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 specializes in early modern crime, criminality, and related topics. He has published in a number of journals and contributed essays to several collections such as The Final Argument (Kagay, ed.). Recently he translated and edited a 1695 missionary work, Conversion of the King of Bissau for use in his World History classes. His monograph Convicts and Orphans: Forced and State-Sponsored Colonization in the Portuguese Empire, 1550-1755 was released in 2002. His second book on internal exile within Portugal was also published in 2002. ( Stanford University Press). 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’s in Brazil. 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." and Commander of the Order of São Tiago da Espada."

Timothy Coates, Professor
Email: coatest@cofc.edu

Home: Department of History
Office: Maybank 325
Phone: 953-8031

Courses:
Colonial Latin America
Sugar and Slaves in Colonial Brazil
Comparative Slavery in the Americas