Dr Michael Aidan Pope

Michael Aidan Pope is an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in History. He is a historian of the Iberian Peninsula and the Iberian World, c. 1450-1800, with a particular interest in religious conversion and religious culture in the early modern Atlantic.

Teaching

• Race, Identity and Empire in the Iberian Atlantic World (HIST0770) 
• Thinking with the Caribbean, 1492-1700: Entangled Empires, and Interconnected Atlantic and Global Histories (HIST0209) 
• Black Lives in the South Atlantic: West Africa, Americas, and the Caribbean in the Early Modern Era (HIST0089)
• Culture, Ideas and Identities (HIST0844) 
• Atlantic History, 1450-1810 B: Making Atlantic History (HIST0723) 

Publications

• 'Expansion, Reform, and Homogenisation: Three Phases of Proselytising in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic', Church History and Religious Culture (2024).