Noble David Cook (1941 - April 8, 2024) was a historian and author who studied the history of colonial Peru. He taught at the

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from 1992, and was made a professor emeritus there in 2017.

Career

Cook earnt a master's degree from

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, then moved to study at the

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for a PhD in history under . He graduated in 1972. 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. He largely wrote the book based on research he conducted in Peru during the 1970s. He taught at University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. While there, he received a

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in 1991 for his work on Iberian and Latin American History. Cook transferred to

in 1992. In 2005, he wrote about the

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for volume three of the '' Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity''. In 2007 he was made a professor emeritus at FIU and, in 2008, was made an honorary professor of the humanities at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Personal life

Cook was born in 1941. He was married to Alexandra Parma Cook, and the couple had one child. He died on April 8, 2024. A year before his death, he had been diagnosed with cancer. He and his family were close friends with Peruvian historians and .

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