Noble David Cook
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Noble David Cook (1941 - April 8, 2024) was a historian and author who studied the history of colonial Peru. He taught at the Florida International University from 1992, and was made a professor emeritus there in 2017.
Cook earnt a master's degree from University of Florida,[1] then moved to study at the University of Texas at Austin for a PhD in history under Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz. He graduated in 1972.[2] In 1981, Cook published Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520–1620, in which he modelled population decline in and analyzed the demographics of Peru during Spanish colonialism.[3][4] He largely wrote the book based on research he conducted in Peru during the 1970s.[1]
He taught at University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.[5] While there, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991 for his work on Iberian and Latin American History.[6] Cook transferred to Florida International University in 1992.[2][5] In 2005, he wrote about the Taíno for volume three of the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.[7] In 2007 he was made a professor emeritus at FIU[5] and, in 2008, was made an honorary professor of the humanities at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.[1]
