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EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Toronto, Canada
PhD in History, expected date of completion: 2009
Comprehensive Examination Fields: Medieval 1050-1494; Europe 1400-1600; Colonial Latin America
Dissertation Title: Coping with crises: Christian-Jewish Relations in Catalonia and Aragon, 1380-1391
Supervisor: Mark Meyerson
Committee Members: Kenneth Mills, Joseph Goering
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Montréal, Canada
B.A. Honours History, With Great Distinction, 2003
Honours Thesis: Crusaders and Inquisitors: Elite Involvement in Catharism in the Wake of the Albigensian Crusade (1208-1229)
Supervisor: Shannon McSheffrey
Universidade do Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Bachelor of Law, 1999
LANGUAGES
Fluency in Portuguese (native speaker) and English. Advanced level in French and Spanish. Good understanding of Catalan. Reading knowledge of Latin. Currently learning Hebrew.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sole Instructor, University of Toronto
HIS495S – The Margins of Medieval Society, 1000-1500 (Enrollment: 15). Spring 2010. Seminar course. Responsible for all course activities, including final grades.
HIS389H – The Margins of Medieval Society, 1000-1500 (Enrollment: 30). Summer 2009. Lecture course. Responsible for all course activities, including final grades.
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto
HIS208Y – History of the Jewish People (Enrollment: 75). Fall/Winter 2009/10. Duties: Preparing tutorials and leading discussions for five groups of up to 15 students; marking essays and exams; occasional lecture.
HIS243S - Early Modern Europe, 1450-1648 (Enrollment: 180). Fall 2007 and Fall 2008. Duties: Preparing tutorials and leading discussions for five groups of up to 15 students; marking essays and exams
Invited guest lectures
“Medieval Jewish Religious and Intellectual Life”, to be presented for the course HIS 208 History of the Jewish People, Department of History, University of Toronto, 21 October 2009
“The Reformation and the Jews”, presented for the course HIS 309 The European Reformations, Department of History, University of Toronto, 24 March 2009
“Inquisition, Jews, and other ‘Others’ in the Early Modern World”, presented for the course HIS 243 Early Modern Europe, 1450-1648, Department of History, University of Toronto, 19 November 2008
Special lectures:
“Medieval Cross-Cultural Relations,” public lecture presented at Salon 21, Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, 03 June 2009
“‘Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition’: Debunking the Premodern Bogey Man,” presented at The Practice of History Today, a conference for high school students at the Department of History, University of Toronto, 16 April 2009
“From eleventh-century Castile to The Age of Empires II: unpacking the history and the myth behind El Cid”, presented at The Practice of History Today, Department of History, University of Toronto, 22 April 2008
Workshops
“Using Web 2.0 in the Classroom,” Teaching History Workshop Series, Department of History, University of Toronto, December 2009
“Graduate History Research Workshop: a first-hand, how-to, what-not-to-do seminar on historical research”, The Meth Labs, Department of History, University of Toronto, May 2008
“Graduate Funding Seminar: Writing Effective SSHRC & OGS Applications”, Department of History, University of Toronto, September 2004 & September 2008
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship
2004-2007
University of Toronto Fellowship
2003-2008
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2003-2004; 2004-2005 (declined)
FQRSC – Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture
2003-2005
Warketin Travel Grant, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009
GHS Distinguished Service Award
2007-2008
Iter Fellowship, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
2007-2008
Department of History Travel Grant, University of Toronto
April 2008
Jack & Rita Catheral Travel Grant, Massey College, University of Toronto
March 2006
O’Connor/O’Hearn Award for Academic Excellence and Contributions to University Life, Concordia University
May 2003
David Fox Memorial Prize for Best Honours Essay
May 2003
Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Concordia University
November 2002
Concordia University History Department Award
September 2002
Dean’s List, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University
Named to the Dean’s List for the 2000-2001, 2001-2002, and 2002-2003 Academic Years.
I. Publications
“Seeking remission: Jewish conversion in the Crown of Aragon, c.1378-1391″, forthcoming in Jewish History
Co-author with Dana Wessell, “Inquisition,” in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, editor in chief, Dinah L. Shelton, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004
II. Conference Papers
“Conflict among Jews in medieval Catalonia: Samuel Gracia and the Jewish consumption of Christian justice,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009
“Christian-Jewish relations in the Crown of Aragon: contextualizing violence during the Black Death,” Continuity and Change Student Colloquium, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 26 October 2008
“Jews, conversos, and royal policy in the Crown of Aragon before the mass conversions of 1391,” Pre-Modern Discussion Group, Department of History, University of Toronto. 20 October 2008.
“Seeking remission: Jews and conversos in the Crown of Aragon, 1380-1391,” The Conversos and Moriscos, IV International Conference, Segovia, Spain, 5 June 2008
“Looking for an heir: Jewish bigamy and the royal courts in the late fourteenth-century Crown of Aragon,” Renaissance Society of America meeting, Chicago, IL, 3 April 2008
“The Creation of Racial Identity in Fifteenth-Century Spain”, Racial and Ethnic Identities Reading Group, Department of History, University of Toronto, 12 October 2007
“Playing the ethnic card: Mestiços and Native Slavery in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” Pre-Modern Discussion Group, Department of History, University of Toronto. 10 March 2005.
ACADEMIC SERVICE & RELATED ACTIVITIES
Elected Academic Chair, Graduate History Society, University of Toronto, 2008-2009
Elected President, Graduate History Society, University of Toronto, 2008/2009
Organizer, “Transitioning from research into writing: getting the thesis done”, a workshop presented by Profs. Alison Smith and Sarah Amato, Department of History, University of Toronto, 7 October 2008
Graduate Fellow and Webmaster, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2008/2009
Publications Committee Member, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2008/2009
Non-Resident Junior Fellow, Massey College at the University of Toronto. 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2007/2008
Organizing Committee Member, Fourth Annual Graduate History Symposium, held at the University of Toronto, February 8th-9th, 2008
Co-organizer of the Teaching History Workshops at the Department of History, University of Toronto, 2005-2006, and 2007-2008
Co-organizer, Pre-Modern Discussion Group at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Spring 2008, 2008-2009
PhD Student Member of the Graduate Program Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto, Fall 2005, 2007-2008
Iter Graduate Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2007-2008.
Graduate Student Member of the SGS Council, University of Toronto, elected for the 2004/2005 term
Executive Member of the Friends of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library Committee, University of Toronto, 2003-2006
Executive Member of the Graduate History Society (GHS), University of Toronto, 2003-2006, 2007-2008
Organizing Committee Member, Program editor A Gathering of Pilgrims: Toronto 2005 – an international conference devoted the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, held at the University of Toronto, May 10-17 2005
President of Students of History at Concordia (SHAC – Undergraduate history student association), Concordia University, QC, 2002-2003
Undergraduate member of the African Search Committee at the History Department, Concordia University, QC, 2002
Editor of Acta Historiae, the Students of History at Concordia’s newsletter
Layout designer of The GHS Review, the Graduate History Students’ newsletter
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AHA – American Historical Association
RSA – Renaissance Society of America
AARHMS – American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
