Expert Source: Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Ph.D.

Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Ph.D., focuses her research on Iberian peninsular history (Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world). For her dissertation on the economy and society of late medieval and early modern Seville (Spain), she received a Fulbright Fellowship, a grant from the program for cultural cooperation between Spain’s ministry of culture and American universities, and a grant from Spain’s ministerio de asuntos exteriors. Hernández-Múzquiz also served a three-year term as the president of the southeast Virginia chapter of the Fulbright Association.

Education:

• B.A., M.A., Old Dominion University
• Ph.D., Columbia University

Areas of Expertise:

• Iberian peninsular history (Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world)
• Mediterranean history (medieval and early modern)
• Medieval and early modern economy and society

Selected Publications:

• "Encounters in crisis: Jewish, Converso, and Muslim interaction with Christian powers in late medieval Seville" (in “Jewish-Muslim Encounters: History, Philosophy, and Culture,” 2001)
• "Crisis and encounter: Jews and Muslims in fifteenth-century Seville" (in Dialogue and Alliance 14, 2000)