Cory Conover, Ph.D.

Cory Conover, Ph.D.

Professor of History

History Department

Education 

Ph.D. in History, University of Texas at Austin

Biography 

After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Dr. Cory Conover joined Augustana to teach Latin American history. In his courses, students examine the people and forces that shaped countries like Cuba, Mexico and Haiti. Conover's lifelong fascination with this region started in college, and has lived in several Latin American countries. He regularly visits and has taken students to Havana, the Yucatan and Peten. Conover's academic interest focuses on the inner workings of Catholicism and heritage of Spanish control of the region. His research drawn from ecclesiastical archives in Mexico City, Mexico, Madrid, Spain, and Rome, Italy, went into his book "Pious Imperialism: Spanish Rule and the Cult of Saints in Mexico City (University of New Mexico Press, 2019)." Conover's latest project tackles the morality of Catholic priests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.