Graduate Student, History
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: “Lives in Exile: Castilian and Granadan Moriscos in Valladolid, 1570-1614” (Dissertation in Progress)
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Mark Meyerson (Supervisor)
Natalie Rothman Kenneth Mills |
About
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. I study religious conversion and the social identity of religious converts in the early modern Spanish world.
My dissertation (in progress) focuses on the lives of Granadan Moriscos and their interactions with Castilian Moriscos and Old Christians in Valladolid, between the arrival of the exiled Granadan Moriscos in Castile in 1571 and the final expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain between 1609 and 1614. My dissertation will investigate how the religious culture of the Granadan Moriscos changed or survived in Valladolid. I will also examine the impact of the Granadan Moriscos on the social status and perceived religious identity of the Castilian Moriscos.
In 2010 I passed my comprehensive exams in three fields: Early Modern Europe, Colonial Latin America, and Indigenous Histories in North America.
