Cooper, Cecilio M.

Cecilio M. Cooper holds a PhD (with Distinction) in African American Studies and a graduate certificate in critical theory from Northwestern University. Cooper researches and teaches Atlantic World literary and visual cultures, with scholarly interests ranging from cartography to alchemy to demonology to medicine. Using materials from the 13th century onward, Cooper's first book manuscript examines how Blackness figures in cosmological constitutions of territory throughout Europe and the Americas. Cooper’s archival research has been supported by the John Carter Brown Library, Yale Center for British Art, American Antiquarian Society, Helmerich Center for American Research, and Duke University’s Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library.