My research focuses on Christian-Jewish relations in the late fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon. My dissertation research has taken me to Barcelona and Girona and has been funded by the Fonds Quebecois de Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture (FQRSC), an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). I have presented papers at the Renaissance Society of America Meeting and the International Conference on Converso and Morisco Studies in Spain and have organized a panel for the 2009 International Congress on Medieval Studies, in which I also presented a paper.  With a keen interest in university life, I have been an active member of the Graduate History Society, the Friends of the Pontifical Library of Mediaeval Studies Executive Committee, as well as the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. My article “Seeking remission: Jewish conversion in the Crown of Aragon, c.1378-1391″ was recently published in Jewish History (vol. 24, 2010) and with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, I wrote the entry “Inquisition” for the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, published by Macmillan Press.

I’m currently a lecturer at New College, University of Toronto, where I teach world history to international students at the International Foundation Program.