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Academic Biography
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis, 2008-present
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Davis, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University, 2000-2004
Ph.D: Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Research Interests
Spain and Portugal, Mexico and Central America, early modern Europe; cult of saints; sacred archaeology; hagiography; collectors and collecting
Selected Publications
From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
“El Sacromonte y la geografía sacra de la Granada moderna,” in Los Plomos del Sacromonte. Invención y tesoro, ed. Manuel Barrios Aguilera and Mercedes García-Arenal (Valencia: Universitat de València; Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada; Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2006), 459-479.
“The Sacromonte and the Geography of the Sacred in Early Modern Granada,” Al-Qantara XXIII:2 (2002): 517-543.
“Forging History: the Plomos of Granada in Francisco Bermúdez de Pedraza’s Historia eclesiástica,” Sixteenth Century Journal XXX:4 (1999): 945-966.
Course History
Lecture courses: World History, 1350-1850 (History 10B); Christianity and Culture in Europe, 1450-1600 (130B); European History During the Renaissance and Reformation (131B); Spain and America in the Sixteenth Century (History 160).
Undergraduate seminars: Culture and Control in Early Modern Europe; Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe.
Graduate seminars: Discourses of Difference: Identities in Early Modern Spain & the Spanish America World; Confessionalization and Social Discipline in Early Modern Europe