Lecturer, International Foundation Program, New College, University of Toronto.
alexandra.guerson@utoronto.ca

I am a PhD Candidate at the department of history at the University of Toronto and Lecturer at New College, where I teach world history to international students. I grew up in Brazil, received a Bachelor of Law from the University of Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio) before moving to Montreal, Canada in 1999. I received my BA (History) with great distinction from Concordia University in 2003 and was directly admited to the PhD program at the University of Toronto in that same year. At the University of Toronto, I am an active member of the Graduate History Society and the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. I have also served in the past on the executive committee of the Friends of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library. Since 2009, I have been part of the development team of ePorte, an online portal for resources on the premodern Mediterranean.

My research interests are on cross-cultural relations in medieval and early-modern Iberia and issues surrounding identity and acculturation. During my research year in Spain, I have also become increasingly interested on the uses of the medieval past in Spain today and the role it plays on the fashioning of a new Spanish identity in the post-Franco era.

Outside of history, I’m also interested in languages, photography and web 2.0 technologies. This site is intended as an academic portal for my research and teaching.