Academic Appointments and Affiliations

  • Boulder Faculty Association: representative (RLST) (2018-)
  • Center for the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education (Universidad de Alicante), Member (2017-)
  • The Center for the Study of Conversion, (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) (2014-)
  • Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (2014-)
  • Research Associate, Humanities, University of California Santa Cruz (2012-)
  • Associated Faculty, Center for Asian Studies: University of Colorado at Boulder (2016–)
  • Associated Faculty: Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Program (2015-)
  • Associated Faculty, History: University of Colorado at Boulder (2010–)
  • Humanities Core Faculty: University of Colorado at Boulder (2011–)
  • Associated Faculty: Jewish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (2011–)
  • Executive Committee: Jewish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (2017–2018)
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Chair, Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder (2012-2015)
  • Director of Graduate Studies & Associate Chair, Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder (2012)
  • Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (2010-14)
  • Affiliated Faculty, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA (2012-)
  • Associate Professor, History: University of California Santa Cruz (2002–2012)
  • Affiliated Faculty: Jewish Studies, University of California Santa Cruz (2006–2012)
  • Università di Messina, external faculty (PhD program) (2007–2012)

Research:

  • The Mediterranean Seminar, Co-Director (2009–)
  • Colorado Mediterranean Studies Group, Co-convenor (w/ Claire Farago, Art & Art History, CU Boulder)
  • UC Mediterranean Studies Multi-Campus Research Project, PI (2009–)
  • UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies, co-Director (2009–)
  • NEH Summer Institute (Barcelona), co-Director (2008–)
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Barcelona),
    • La Corona d'Aragó, l'Islam i el món mediterrani (Generalitat de Catalunya: Consolidated Research Group: 2009 SGR 1452, dir.: Roser Salicrú i Lluch), Project Member (2009–)
    • La Corona de Aragón en el Mediterráneo medieval: puente entre culturas, mediadora entre Cristiandad e Islam (Miniserio de Ciencia e Innovación: Research Project: HUM2007-61131, dir: Roser Salicrú i Lluch), Project Member (2009–
    • The Crown of Aragon in the Medieval Mediterranean: Bridge between Cultures, Mediator between Christendom and the Islamic World (Spanish MEC: Research Project, dir.: M.T. Ferrer i Mallol), Project Associate (2007–2010)
    • The Crown of Aragon in the Medieval Mediterranean: Bridge between Cultures, Mediator between Christendom and the Islamic World (Spanish MEC: Research Project, dir.: M.T. Ferrer i Mallol), Project Member (2001–-2005 & 2005–2009)
    • Becari (doctoral fellow): La Corona d'Aragó i els Països Islàmics a la Baixa Edat Mitjana: el Marc Político-militar i els Intercanvis Econòmics i Culturals (1996–1999)
  • Boston University, Institute for Medieval Studies: Visiting Scholar (Post-doctoral Fellowship)
    Supervisor: Thomas F. Glick (2000–2002)

Professional Societies:
Service:

  • Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee, Middle East Studies Association: Chair (2018)
  • American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain Executive Council: Member (2017-)
  • American Academy of Religion: “Pre-Modern Europe & the Mediterranean” Consultation: Co-Chair (w/ David Freidenreich, Colby College) (2015-)
  • “Premio del Rey” Book Prize, American Historical Association: Committee Member (2014-17 [recused] & 2008-10)
  • American Academy of Research Historians of Spain: Executive Council Member (2010-17)
  • Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Book Prize Committee Member (2016)
  • American Academy of Religion: Member/ "Mediterranean Consultation" Steering Committee (2010-15)
  • Medieval Academy of America: Book Review Editor (Late Medieval), Speculum (2009-2012)
  • Middle East Studies Association: Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee,Member (2017)
  • NEH Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center.  Selection Committee: Member (2018)
  • NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions Selection Committee, Member (2012)
  • American Academy of Research Historians of Spain: President (2008–2010)
  • American Academy of Research Historians of Spain: Newsletter Editor (2006–2008)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: proposal reviewer (2017)

Memberships:

  • American Academy of Research Historians of Spain: Member
  • American Historical Association, Member
  • Canadian Society of Medievalists, Member
  • Medieval Academy of America, Member
  • Mediterranean Studies Association, Member
  • Middle East Medievalists, Member
  • Middle East Studies Association, Member
  • Societat Catalana d'Estudis Històrics, Member
  • Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Member
  • Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Member
  • The New Salerno Medical School Association (Salerno, Italy): Honorary Member

Editorial Service:

  • Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean: Editorial Board Member
  • Circolarità Mediterranee/Mediterranean Circularities (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider): Monograph Series, Board Member
  • Mediterranea (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain): Advisory Board Member
  • Oxford Islamic Studies Online: "al-Andalus" section, Editor-in-Chief
  • Scripta Mediterranea: Editorial Board Member
  • World Association of Global Diaspora Studies: Editorial Board Member
  • American Journal of Mediterranean Studies: Advisory Board Member
  • Mediterranean Studies (Palgrave MacMillan): Series Co-Editor
  • "Anejos" del Anuario de Estudios Medievales (CSIC, Barcelona): Editorial Committee, monograph series (2010–)
  • Speculum (Medieval Academy of America): Book Review Editor, Late Middle Ages (2009–)
  • postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (Palgrave): Editorial Board Member (2008–)
  • Mediterranean Chronicle (Ionian University, Corfu): Editorial Board Member (2008–)
  • Aragón en la Edad Media (Universidad de Zaragoza): Editorial Board Member (2008–)
  • Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Taylor Francis): Editorial Executive Board Member (2012-2018)
  • Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Taylor Francis): Editorial Board Member (2007–2012)
  • Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum (Universitat de Lleida): Editorial Board Member (2007–)
  • AARHMS Newsletter (American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain): Editor (2006–2007)

Manuscript and Editorial Review:

  • Al-Masaq
  • American Historical Review
  • Anthem Press
  • Aragon en la Edad Media
  • Arc Humanities Press
  • Brill Academic Publishers
  • California History-Social Science Project
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Chicago University Press
  • Columbia University Press
  • Comparative Studies in Society and History
  • Enslow Publishers, Inc.
  • Florilegium
  • Fons Luminis
  • Harvard University Press
  • Hurst & Co
  • International Journal of Middle East Studies
  • Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
  • The Journal of Medieval Worlds
  • Journal of Mediterranean Studies 
  • Journal of Religious History
  • La Corónica
  • Libraries & the Cultural Record
  • Longman Publishers
  • Medieval Encounters
  • Mediterranean Studies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Owlkids
  • Oxford Islamic Studies Online
  • Oxford University Press
  • Palgrave/ MacMillan
  • Reti Medievali – Rivista
  • Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
  • Revista Estudios Medievales Hispánicos
  • Routledge
  • Routledge (Anthropology)
  • Routledge (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East)
  • Speculum
  • Studies in Church History
  • Studies in Late Antiquity
  • Tamid
  • The Medieval Globe
  • University of California Press
  • University of Edinburgh Press
  • University of Indiana Press
  • University of North Carolina Press
  • University of Notre Dame Press
  • University of Pennsylvania Press
  • University of Toronto Press
  • Viator
  • Wiley

Tenure and promotion review:

  • Associate Professor in the School of Religion: University of Southern California
  • Professor of History: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Assistant Professor of History, UC San Diego
  • Professor of History: UC Riverside
  • Associate Professor of History: University of Rhode Island
  • Associate Professor of Literature: UC Santa Cruz
  • Associate Professor of History: Rice University
  • Associate Professor of History: Michigan State University
  • Full Teaching Professor of History: State University of New York, New Paltz
  • Associate Professor for History: Fordham University
  • ExteAssociate Professor for History: Siena College
  • NEH Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions Selection Committee, Member (2012)
  • NEH Summer Stipend Selection Committee, Member (2012; cancelled)
  • Associate Professer: Romance Languages, University of Michigan
  • Associate Professer: History, Gettysburg College
  • Associate Professer: History, University of Pennsylvania
  • Associate Professer: Religious Studies, Lawrence University
  • Associate Professer: History, University of Southern California
  • Associate Professer: History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  • “Criminal Law and the Development of the Assizes of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century” (PhD Dissertation: Centre for Medieval Studies: University of Toronto), External Examiner
  • Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences: Fellowship selection committee, member (2010)
  • NEH Media Makers Grant Selection Committee, Member (2007)