Sturges Hall 302
1 College Circle Geneseo, NY 14454
585-245-5449
cope@geneseo.edu
Joseph Cope has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2001.
Faculty Information
Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
The British Isles
Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Europe
Social and Cultural History
Awards and Honors
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
Publications
"The Irish Stroker and the King: Valentine Greatrakes, Protestant Faith Healing, and the Restoration in Ireland," Éire-Ireland, Fall/Winter 2011.
England and the 1641 Irish Rebellion (2009).
My Classes
HIST 230: Modern Ireland:1550 to Present
This course covers the history of Ireland from the 16th-century Tudor conquest through the present. Course content will include the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, conquest and plantation politics under the Tudors and Stuarts, the emergence of the Protestant ascendancy, protest and reform movements during the late 18th and 19th centuries, the famine and migration, the emergence of Gaelic nationalism, and the crisis in Northern Ireland. Credits: 3(3-0). Not offered on a regular basis
HUMN 221: H/Western Humanities II
A search for moral, social, and political alternatives and meaning embodied in the institutions, culture, and literature of Western Civilization from 1600 to the present. The course is factual as well as conceptual, including a narrative history of the period covered. Prerequisite: Humn 220.