Assistant Professor
Dr. Justin Pope joined the Missouri S&T faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2017. He received his Ph.D. in history from the George Washington University and spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery at Brown University.
Dr. Pope previously worked as an urban planner for the cities of Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Medford, Oregon, before returning to academia to pursue his passion for colonial American history. His interest in the history of early America and the early modern Atlantic World has led him as far afield as Ghana, in West Africa, and Barbados in the Caribbean. His research has been supported by several nationally competitive fellowships, including the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Dissertation Completion Award.
His current book project Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: The Politics of Slaves and Rebels, 1688 to 1748 is currently under review with University of Missouri Press. The manuscript examines an eruption of real and imagined slave uprisings that swept through the Atlantic World in the first half of the eighteenth century. His article “Inventing an Indian Slave Conspiracy in Nantucket, 1738,” was published in the Summer 2017 issue of Early American Studies.
New Faculty 2017-2018
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About Justin Pope
Dr. Justin Pope joined the Missouri S&T faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2017. He received his Ph.D. in history from the George Washington University and spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Slavery at Brown University.
Dr. Pope previously worked as an urban planner for the cities of Saint Petersburg, Florida, and Medford, Oregon, before returning to academia to pursue his passion for colonial American history. His interest in the history of early America and the early modern Atlantic World has led him as far afield as Ghana, in West Africa, and Barbados in the Caribbean. His research has been supported by several nationally competitive fellowships, including the American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon Dissertation Completion Award.
His current book project Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: The Politics of Slaves and Rebels, 1688 to 1748 is currently under review with University of Missouri Press. The manuscript examines an eruption of real and imagined slave uprisings that swept through the Atlantic World in the first half of the eighteenth century. His article “Inventing an Indian Slave Conspiracy in Nantucket, 1738,” was published in the Summer 2017 issue of Early American Studies.
New Faculty 2017-2018
| August 2017 - Present | Assistant Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‐ History and Political Science | |
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| 2014 - 2015 | Post-doctoral fellow, Brown University ‐ Center for the Study of Slavery | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
| 2014 | Ph.D., George Washington University | |
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Contact Information
130 Humanities-Social Sciences
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, MO 65409-1260
(573) 341-6126
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