Research
I started my career working on Christian-Jewish relations in the medieval Crown of Aragon with my dissertation Coping with crises: Christian-Jewish relations in Catalonia and Aragon, 1380-1391. Since then, Dana Wessell Lightfoot and I have joined our expertises in a project on the impact of various crises of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century on Jewish women and conversas in Girona, Catalonia.
We have received an Insight Grant for that project by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) and have presented and published on our findings. We are both on research leave in 2022/23 to work on finalizing the draft of our book on that project.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Co-edited with Michelle Armstrong-Partida and Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Women & Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Articles
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Jewish Women, Conversas, and Economic Activity in Catalonia,” Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World, Forthcoming.
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “A Tale of Two Tolranas: Jewish Women’s Agency and Conversion in Late Medieval Girona.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 12, no. 3 (2020): 344–64.
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Mixed Marriages and Community Identity in Fifteenth-Century Girona,” in Women & Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Crises and Community: Catalan Jewish women and conversas in Girona, 1391-1420,” Tamid: Revista Catalana Annual d’Estudis Hebraics. Vol 14 (2019) : 91-130.
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Digging through the Archives Together: Collaborative Research in Medieval Gender and Jewish History,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol 13, No. 1 (Fall 2018): 92-105. Part of a special forum on “Rethinking Methodologies for Early Modern Women’s Studies.”
Co-author with Dana Wessell Lightfoot, “Jewish Women, Conversas, and Remarriage in Girona after the anti-Jewish violence of 1391”, in Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400 to 1800, 20-37, edited by Lyndan Warner. Routledge, 2018.
“Death in the Aljama of Huesca: The Jews and Royal Taxation in Fourteenth-Century Aragon”, Sefarad Vol. 75, No. 1(2015): 35-63.
“Seeking remission: Jewish conversion in the Crown of Aragon, c.1378-1391″, Jewish History Vol. 24, No. 1 (2010): 33-52.