Office Hours

  • MW 1:00 - 2:30, and by appt. on Thursdays.
  • For prospective students, F 1:00 - 2:30.
 

Announcements

 

Joseph Cope

Associate Professor of

History

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).
  • Cope
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.