Born:Alfred William McCoy, (1945-06-08) June 8, 1945 (age 80), Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Parent:Margarita Piel
Thesis:Yloilo: Factional Conflict in a Colonial Economy, Iloilo Province, Philippines, 1937-1955 (1977)
Alma mater:Columbia University (BA), University of California, Berkeley (MA), Yale University (PhD)
Discipline:Historian
Occupation:Educator
Institutions:Yale University, University of New South Wales, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Notable works:The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972)
Main interests:History of the Philippines, Foreign policy of the United States, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, Illegal drug trade, Central Intelligence Agency covert operations
Doctoral advisor:Harold C. Conklin
Doctoral students:Temario Rivera (1994), , Mai Na Lee