Brad Skopyk
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Name
Brad Skopyk
First Name
Bradley
family_name
Skopyk
Credits & Roles
Instructor for Hist501D Digital History
Research Interests
I am an historian of colonial Mexico, studying the intersection of human culture and environmental factors such as disease, climate, and land use. I make extensive use of methods in the Spatial & Digital Humanities such as the interrogation of historical maps, keeping data in geodatabases, mapping social and environmental relationships, and using spatial statistics and other forms of analysis to derive meaning from data. I integrate research from the humanities, social sciences, and the physical sciences to enable a deep interdisciplinary view of history.
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Title and Description of Current Project
The Ecology of Crisis in Colonial Mexico
Publications
Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape and Memory in Mexico’s Little Ice Age, Latin American Landscapes Series. Tucson, AZ.: University of Arizona Press, 2020.
Guest editor with Katherinne Mora and Gabriel Pereira. Special Issue on “Climate History and Historical Climatology in the Americas, 16th – 20th centuries”, Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura (proposed and under review).
Co-Editor with Emily McClung de Tapia. En busca del paisaje perdido: transformaciones ecológicas en el centro de México a través de su historia (under review, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
Co-authored with Elinor G. K. Melville. “Disease, Ecology, and the Environment in Colonial Mexico,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture, William Beezley (ed), 1:526-47. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (First author)
"Rivers of God, Rivers of Empire: Climate Extremes, Environmental Transformation and Agroecology in Colonial Mexico." Environment and History 23, no. 4 (Nov. 2017): 491-522.
Co-authored with Diana Martínez Irizar. "La presa de Acolman: integridad física, vida social e inestabilidad ambiental en el Valle de Teotihuacán." In Monumentos al agua: fábrica, descripción, e imagen de obras hidráulicas en el México Virreinal, edited by John F. López and Luis J. Gordo-Paláez, 47-66. Mexico City: Coordinación Nacional de Monumentos Históricos del INAH, 2015. (First author)