YUEN-GEN LIANG

ASSOC IATE R ESEAR CH FELLOW • INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND PHILOLOGY • ACADEMIA SINIC A
FOUNDER • SPAIN-NORTH AFRIC A PR OJECT
CO-PR ESIDENT • NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANC E C ONFERENCE
CO-FOUNDER • WHEATON INSTITUTE FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY HUM ANITIES
AC ADEM IA ROAD, SEC 2, NO 130 • TAIPEI • TAIWAN • YGLHISTORY@GMAIL.C OM
WWW.SPAINNORTHAFR IC APR OJECT.OR G • WWW.WHEATONC OLLEGE.EDU/ WIIH

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of History, Princeton University
2005 Dissertation: “Family and Power: The Fernández de Córdoba Lineage, Service, and the
Construction of the Spanish Empire”
Committee: Anthony Grafton (Chair), William C. Jordan, Molly Greene, and Teofilo F. Ruiz

M.A. Department of History, Princeton University

1999 Fields: Early Modern Europe, Ottoman Empire, Colonial Latin America
General examination passed with distinction, May 1999

1996- IIE-Fulbright Scholarship for research

1997 Institut Français d’Études Arabes à Damas, Damascus (Syria)

B.A. Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

1995 Graduated summa cum laude

EMPLOYMENT
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, June 2018-present
Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei, February 2016 to June 2018
Associate Professor, Wheaton College MA, July 2012 to January 2016
Visiting Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, Taipei, January 2014 to January 2015
Assistant Professor, Wheaton College MA, June 2005 to June 2012
Graduate Student Instructor, Princeton University, Fall 1999 and Fall 2003

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Founder, Spain-North Africa Project, July 2010 to present
Co-Founder, Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities, July 2012 to present
Founding Member, Editorial Board of The Medieval Globe, October 2012 to present
Mentor, Michelson-Runway Ed-tech Accelerator, Runway Incubator, San Francisco, Dec 2015 to present
Member, Founding Council, Asian Federation for Mediterranean Studies Institutes, Mar 2016 to present

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Program Coordinator for Asia, The Mediterranean Seminar, May 2016 to present
Member, Advisory Board, The Mediterranean Seminar, November 2015 to present
Co-President, New England Renaissance Conference, November 2013 to present
President, Spain-North Africa Project, September 2010 to September 2015
Member, Editorial Board of Tiempos Modernos: Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna (Early Modern
Times: Online Journal of Early Modern History, Spain), January 2013 to December 2014
Co-Director, Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities, July 2012 to June 2013
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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS)

Author, Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

Co-editor, Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill,
2013).

Co-editor with Jarbel Rodriguez, Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays
in Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES AND JOURNALS)

Co-author with Jarbel Rodriguez, “Authority and Spectacle: Teofilo F. Ruiz and the Study of Medieval
and Early Modern Europe,” in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Essays in
Honor of Teofilo Ruiz (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017).

First author, with Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Andrew Devereux, and Abigail Krasner Balbale, “Unity and
Disunity Across the Strait of Gibraltar,” in Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western
Mediterranean, a special issue of Medieval Encounters 19, no. 1-2 (2013), 1-40.

Co-editor by invitation, with Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Andrew Devereux, and Abigail Krasner Balbale,
Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean, a special issue of Medieval
Encounters 19, no. 1-2 (2013).

First author with Barbara Fuchs, “Introduction: A Forgotten Empire: The Early Modern Spanish-North
African Borderlands,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 12, no. 3 (September 2011): 261-271.

Co-editor with Barbara Fuchs, A Forgotten Empire: The Early Modern Spanish-North African
Borderlands, a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 12, no. 3 (September 2011).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Author, “The Western Mediterranean: Civilizational Exchange at the Borderland between Europe and
Africa,” in Civilizational Exchange in the Mediterranean, ed. by Jungha Kim (Busan: Institute of
Mediterranean Studies, 2017).

First author, with Touba Ghadessi, “The Interdisciplinary Humanities: A Platform for Experiential
Learning of Workplace Skills,” Perspectives on History 51, no. 4 (April 2013).

Book review of Carina Johnson, Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and
Mexicans in Journal of World History 24, no. 3 (September 2013).

Book review of Thomas Devaney, Enemies in the Plaza: Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish
Frontier Culture, 1460-1492 in Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 9 (Fall 2016).

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
My Brother’s Keeper: The West and Islam 600-900 (new book-length project).

“History and the Production of Societies in the Past and Future,” in New Horizons for Early Modern
Europe, edited by Ann Blair and Nicholas Popper (in progress, draft to be submitted to The Johns
Hopkins University Press).
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“Urban Settlements on a ‘Two-Sided Frontier’: Spanish North African Enclaves between Land and
Sea." Cheiron: Materiali e strumenti di aggiornamento storiografico (in progress, draft to be submitted
in February 2019).

“‘Subjective’ Experiences of ‘Objective’ Geography: Oran between Spain and North Africa,” to be
submitted to Mediterranean Historical Review.

“Toledo After the Comunidades Revolt: Restoration of a Capital City and the Monarchy” to be submitted
to the Journal of Early Modern History.

“Spy Networks Across the Pyrenees: Navarre as an Information Crossroads of Sixteenth-Century Europe”
to be submitted to the Sixteenth Century Journal.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)

2018 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology International Enhance Influence Grant
2017 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology International Enhance Influence Grant
2017 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant
2015 Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
2014 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Grant
2014 Taiwan National Science Council Grant
2013 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship (for research leave)
2011 Spanish Ministry of Culture, Subvention for the publication of Family and Empire
2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship
2000 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
2000 Program for Cultural Cooperation - Spanish Ministry of Education Research Grant
1996 IIE-Fulbright Grant to Syria

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (INSTITUTIONAL)

2017 National Taiwan University, College of Liberal Arts Travel Grant (also in 2016)
2013 Wheaton College Faculty Summer Research Grant (also in 2012, 2011, 2010)
2012 Wheaton College Curriculum “Connections” Award (also in 2011, 2008)
2011 Wheaton College Curriculum Transformation Award (also in 2008)
2008 Wheaton College-Mellon Foundation Summer Faculty-Student Research Fellowship
1999 Princeton University-Mellon Foundation Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship
1998 Princeton University-Council on Regional Studies Summer Research Grant
1997-2003 Princeton University Ph.D. Fellowship
1995 University Medallion, University of California, Berkeley, nominee
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FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, SPAIN-NORTH AFRICA PROJECT (SNAP), JULY 2010-PRESENT

Mission: SNAP brings together scholars to undertake collaborative projects that envision Iberia and
North Africa as an interconnected region. Its mission is to bridge linguistic, national, academic, and
disciplinary divides in order to promote innovative scholarship. Our 175 members study interactions
between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the western Mediterranean, using Latin, Romance, Arabic,
Hebrew, Tamazight, visual, and material sources. They work in anthropology, archaeology, art history,
history, literary studies, musicology, philosophy, political science, and religious studies and are based at
academic and cultural institutions on four continents. For more information, please visit:
www.spainnorthafricaproject.org

Leadership: As the elected president, I led and coordinated SNAP’s activities. SNAP has published a
collections of essays Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean (Brill, 2013) and
special issues of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Medieval Encounters, and the Journal of North
African Studies. SNAP has partnered with faculty at the University of California-Santa Cruz, Bard
Graduate College, the Mediterranean Seminar, Loyola Marymount University, and Catholic University of
America to organize conferences in 2017, 2016, 2014, and 2011 and panels and series of panels at the
2011 ASPHS, 2011 MESA, and the 2012 AHA. I established SNAP’s institutional structure, led
meetings of an elected Board of Directors, organized collaborative projects, and represented SNAP to the
academic and general public.

CO-FOUNDER, WHEATON INSTITUTE FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES, JUNE 2012-PRESENT

Mission: Demonstrating and explaining how the humanities prepare students for a professional world are
imperative. Each year, the co-directors of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities
(WIIH) design a theme, organize scholarly activities, and implement an integrated plan that incorporates
the theme and activities with undergraduate coursework. The 2013 theme, “The Humanities Give Back:
The Humanities in Professional Fields,” brought professionals in business, engineering, law, medicine,
and the sciences-technology who integrate the humanities into their practice to campus to explain how the
humanities enhance their work. As co-founder, I am establishing the WIIH’s institutional structure and
lead Advisory Board meetings. For more information, please visit: www.wheatoncollege.edu/wiih

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
(keynote address), “Decontextualization in the Middle Sea: Senses of Dislocation, Bewilderment, and
Immediacy,” Sydney (Australia), February 5-8, 2019.

Peripheral World of the Middle East (keynote address), “Exceptionalism and Exoticization on the
Periphery of the Middle East: History and Memory of Al-Andalus,” Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan),
May 26, 2018.

University of Sydney (Australia), “Fear and Emptiness in the Mediterranean: Spanish Perceptions of
Space in Sixteenth-Century North Africa,” Global Middle Ages Study Group, April 18, 2018.

University of Auckland (New Zealand), “Spanish Knowledge on North Africa: Human Actions,
Perceptions, and Capriciousness in the Sixteenth Century,” Department of History, April 17, 2018.

Peking University (China, via Skype), “Migration and Interaction in Mediterranean History,” Center for
Mediterranean Area Studies, March 16, 2018.

National University of Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), “Spain-North Africa between East-West: 1492 and the
Strait of Gibraltar as Porous Boundaries,” Faculty of Islamic Studies, March 8, 2018.
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Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Medieval Spain and the Search for Interfaith Sociability:
Convivencia as an Answer to Modern Divisions,” Center for the Study of Islamic Culture, November 24,
2017.

University of California, Los Angeles (United States), “¿Where is Barbarossa?: Spanish Sensory
Perception in North Africa,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, November 1, 2017.

University of Colorado, Boulder (United States), “From Sea to Sea: Developing Mediterranean Studies
Across the Pacific,” Mysticism and Devotion, Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2017 Workshop, April 20-
21, 2017.

Kyoto University (Japan), Center for Islamic Area Studies, “Studies on the Mediterranean: American
Approaches to Connections between Iberia and North Africa in the Plus Ultra and al-Maghrib al-Aqsa,”
Asian Federation for Mediterrean Studies Institutes Meeting, July 22, 2016.

Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), Institute of History and Philology, “Biological and Social
Reproduction in the Mediterranean: A New Approach to Parallel Histories,” April 25, 2016.

Busan University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), “Family, Reproduction, and Empire: A New
Approach to the Mediterranean?” Expanding the Frontiers of the Mediterranean, International Conference
20 Anniversary of the Foundation of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (ICIMS), March 24-25,
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2016.

National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan), Department of History, “Commanding Right and
Forbidding Wrong in Early Islam,” March 14, 2016.

Princeton University (United States), “A Taiwanese-American Mediterraneanist in between Multicultural

and Global Worlds,” We Flourish: Celebrating Asian and Asian-American Alumni at Princeton
University, October 15-17, 2015.

Princeton University (United States), “Seeing Institutions as Family: Anthony Grafton at Princeton
University and the American Historical Association,” Polymaths and Proofreaders: A Conference to
Honor Anthony Grafton, May 8-9, 2015.

National Taiwan University (Taipei), Department of History, “Social Reproduction on the Boundaries of
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Western Mediterranean,” September 19, 2014.

Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), Institute of History and Philology, “Plus Ultra Maghrib: The
Crossroads of Spain, North Africa, and Scholarship,” June 24, 2014.

National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan), Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, “Spain and North
Africa: Frontiers of Scholarly Research,” May 28, 2014.

National Taipei University (New Taipei City, Taiwan), “Why the Arab Spring: The Story Behind
Authoritarian States and Protest Movements in the Modern Middle East,” April 24, 2014.

Boston College (United States), Institute for the Liberal Arts, Radical Readings: A Workshop on Early
Modern Artifacts, 1400-1800, “The Mediterranean World through a Subjective Lens: The Spanish-North
African Empire,” May 3-4, 2013.

National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), World Historians Study Group, “Christian-Muslim
Relations in Western Mediterranean Microecologies: Where Plus Ultra and the Maghrib Meet,” March
23, 2013.
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Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), Institute of History and Philology, “Family, History, and the End of
Time: Perceptions of Social Change in the Mediterranean,” March 22, 2013.

Scripps College, California (United States), “Natural and Subjective Frontiers in the Genesis of European
Communities: Two Stories from the Mediterranean,” February 9, 2012.

Florida State University (United States), Middle East Center, “‘Political Microecologies’ in the Early
Modern Mediterranean: Oran between Spain and North Africa,” January 27, 2012.

Wesleyan University, Connecticut (United States), Renaissance Seminar, “Subjective Experience of

Objective Geography on a Frontier of Mediterranean Empires: Spanish Oran, North Africa, and the Sea in
the Sixteenth Century,” December 7, 2011.

University of Chicago (United States), Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop, Family and Empire:
The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm, October 11, 2011.

Wheaton College, Massachusetts (United States), Helmreich Symposium, “From Spain to the Middle East
to Germany: How One Research Project Leads to Another,” March 29, 2011.

Brown University (United States), Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar and Renaissance and
Early Modern Studies, “Introduction” to Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish
Realm, October 27, 2009.

Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship Workshop, New
Orleans, February 14-17, 2002.

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED (INTERNATIONAL)

“The Sensory Perception of Violence in the Sixteenth Century Mediterranean: Typology and Ambiguities
in Spanish-North African Relations,” Religion, Violence, and Multiculturalism: An Interdisciplinary
Inquiry, National Cheng-Kong University, November 30-December 1, 2018.

“Spanish Sensory Experiences of North Africa in the Sixteenth Century,” Association of History,
Literature, Science, and Technology, Busan University of Foreign Studies, November 16-18, 2017.

With Eun-Jee Park, “Teaching and Learning about the Mediterranean in East Asia: A Dialogue on
Taiwanese and South Korean Experiences,” Asian Perspectives of Mediterranean Studies, Asian
Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes Conference, Busan University of Foreign Studies, March
10-11, 2017.

With Eun-Jee Park, “Teaching and Learning about the Mediterranean in East Asia: A Dialogue on
Taiwanese and South Korean Experiences,” MediterrAsians: Affinities in Society, Geography, History,
Culture, Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, February 16, 2017.

“Emotion and Analysis of Mediterranean Geography: Spanish Experiences in Sixteenth-Century Algeria,”

Transnational Imaginaries: Mediterranean Past and Presence, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan
University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, January 27-28, 2016.

“Spanish North Africa: An Arena of Aristocratic Action,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Lisbon, June 30-July 3, 2011.

“Narrating the Parallel Histories of Western Europe and the Middle East, 400-1000: An Experimental
Approach,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Cultural Hybridities in the
Medieval Mediterranean,” Barcelona, July 29, 2010.
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“Property, foundations, and the formation of familial identity in Spain’s transition from local society to
empire: Evidence of the Fernández de Córdoba clan,” European Social Science History Conference,
Ghent, April 13-16, 2010.

“Subjective Experiences of Physical Geography in the Local Mediterranean: Oran on the Spanish-
Ottoman Borderland,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Venice, April 8-10, 2010.

“A Culture and A Distance Apart: The Experience of Human and Physical Space in the Spanish and
Ottoman Empires,” American Institute for Maghrib Studies Conference, Oran (Algeria), June 2-5, 2007.

“The First Count of Alcaudete, Cordovan Lord and Itinerant Imperial Administrator,” Society for Spanish
and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, Madrid, July 2-5, 2003.

“Family Identity and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba in Navarre and Oran,” Mediterranean Studies
Conference, Budapest, May 28-31, 2003.

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED (UNITED STATES)

“How to Make Mediterranean Studies Useful outside the Mediterranean: The View from East Asia,”
Religion, Politics, and Identity, The Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2016 Workshop, California State
University, Fresno, April 8-9, 2016.

“Ethnogenesis: Parallels in the Formation of Islam and the West,” Medieval Association of the Pacific,
University of California, Davis, March 31-April 2, 2016.

“Authority in Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Scholarship of Teofilo F. Ruiz,”
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January 2-5, 2015 (accepted into the
main program and co-sponsored by the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and
the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies).

“A Course, an Exhibition, and Two Conferences: Experiential Undergraduate Education and Building a
Constituency for History,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 3-6,
2013 (main program and co-sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America).

“A Family Reunion in the Spanish Occupation of Navarre,” Renaissance Society of America Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 22-24, 2012.

“Andalusian Families and the Renewal of Ties to the Islamic World in the Late Middle Ages,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 4-6, 2012 (main program).

“A Nascent Empire and the Biological and Social Reproduction of Families: Spanish Imperial
Administration as Lineage Networks,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Boston,
November 17-20, 2011.

“From Ideological Frontiers to Boundaries of the Body and Territory: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in
the Iberian World,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 6-9, 2011 (main
program).

“The Evaluation of ‘Experience’ and ‘Qualification’ in the Administration of the Nascent Spanish
Empire,” New England Renaissance Conference, Boston University, October 30-31, 2009.

“A Family’s Role in Spanish Territorial Cohesion: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Formation of the
Empire,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 3-6, 2008.
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“Identifying a Service Nobility in Early Spanish Empire 1480-1520,” The Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, Miami, April 19-22, 2007.

“Family Structure, Identity, and Networks in the Construction of the Spanish Empire: The Fernández de
Córdoba Lineage (1506-1534),” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City,
March 25-27, 2004.

“Local Roots and Imperial Ambitions: Martín de Córdoba y de Velasco and the Emperor Charles V,”
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, October 28-31, 2003.

CONFERENCE, PANEL, AND EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION

Conference co-organizer with Touba Ghadessi, New England Renaissance Conference, “Renaissance
Now! A New England Renaissance Conference Discussion,” series of three panels at the Renaissance
Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, March 31-April 2, 2016.

Panels series co-organizer with Jarbel Rodriguez, American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
“Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia: In Honor of Teofilo F. Ruiz,” series of
three panels, New York City, January 2-5, 2015 (main program and co-sponsored by the American
Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the Association for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies).

Conference co-organizer with the Spain-North Africa Project, Loyola Marymount University, “Power
Relations and Religious Communities in the Western Mediterranean,” Los Angeles, May 2, 2014.
Program available at www.aucegypt.edu/huss/snap/

Guest lecture co-organizer with John Bezís-Selfa, Helmreich Symposium featuring Stephen Ortega,
“What do I do with my History Degree?: A Humanities Education in the World,” Department of History,
Wheaton College, April 9, 2013.

Roundtable co-organizer with Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Inauguration featuring Anthony Grafton et al., “The Humanities Give Back: The Humanities in
Professional Fields,” Wheaton College, April 1, 2013.

Roundtable co-organizer with Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities,
“Practicing Medicine and Practicing the Humanities,” Wheaton College, February 28, 2013.

Roundtable co-organizer with Monique O’Connell, American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
“Beyond ‘Plan B’ for Renaissance Studies,” New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013 (main program and co-
sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America).

Panel organizer, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, “The Transformation of Christian and
Muslim Communities from Spiritual to Territorial after the Wars of Twelfth-Century Iberia,” Chicago,
January 4-6, 2012 (main program).

Symposium co-organizer with the Spain-North Africa Project, Catholic University of America, “Spanning
the Strait: Unity/Disunity in the Western Mediterranean,” Washington, D.C., November 30, 2011.
Program available at: www.aucegypt.edu/huss/snap/

Panel organizer, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, “Family and the Formation and
Perpetuation of Early Modern States,” Boston, November 17-19, 2011.
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Conference co-organizer with Touba Ghadessi, New England Renaissance Conference, “Expanding
Relations: Family in the Renaissance,” Wheaton College MA, November 12, 2011. Conference website:
http://wheatoncollege.edu/renaissance

Exhibition co-curator with Touba Ghadessi, Beard and Weil Galleries, “The Art of Intellectual
Community: Early Modern Objects and Pedagogy,” Wheaton College MA, November 11, 2011.
Exhibition website: http://wheatoncollege.edu/gallery/

Panel series co-organizer with the Spain-North Africa Project, Association for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies Annual Conference, “Crossing the Straits: Iberia and North Africa” series of three
panels, Lisbon, June 30-July 2, 2011.

Panel series organizer, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, “711 to 2011 –
Commemorating the 1300 Anniversary of Islam in the Iberian World” series of two panels, Boston,
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January 6-9, 2011 (sponsored by the AHA Research Division).

Panel organizer, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, “Measuring Cultural Distance on the
Spanish-North African Borderland,” Venice, April 8-10, 2010.

Panel organizer, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, “Geographic
Mobility, Shifting Identities, and Social Ties in the Early Modern Spanish Imperial World,” Madrid, July
2-5, 2003.

DISCUSSANT, MODERATOR, AND CHAIR ON PANELS

Paper discussant, “Noel Blanco Mourelle’s Trees of Knowledge: A Response,” Mediterranean Seminar
Fall Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 3-4, 2017.

Chair, “Migration, International Relations, and Trade in the Mediterranean,” Asian Federation for
Mediterranean Studies Institutes Conference, Busan University of Foreign Studies, March 10-11, 2017.

Roundtable co-moderator, “New England Renaissance Conference Stakeholders’ Meeting,” New England
Renaissance Conference at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, March 31-April
2, 2016.

Convening chair, “Spaces and Institutions of Learning,” Polymaths and Proofreaders: A Conference to
Honor Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, May 8-9, 2015.

Convener and panel chair, “In Honor of Teofilo Ruiz: Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia,”
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January 2-5, 2015 (accepted into the
main program and co-sponsored by the Association of American Research Historians of Medieval Spain).

Panel moderator, “Talking Artifacts: Geographies of Power,” Spain-North Africa Project Conference on
“Power Relations and Religious Communities in the Western Mediterranean,” Loyola Marymout
University, Los Angeles, May 2, 2014.

Panel chair, “Religion, Apocalypticism, and Reason of State in Early Modern Spain,” American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013 (sponsored by the Renaissance
Society of America).

Roundtable moderator, “Is Iberia a ‘Middle Eastern’ Topic?” Middle East Studies Association Annual
Meeting, Washington D.C., December 1-4, 2011.
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Workshop moderator, “Why Iberia and North Africa?: Unity and Disunity in the Western Mediterranean,”
Spain-North Africa Project Symposium at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November
30, 2011.

Panel discussant, “African Genres: Imagining Africa in Early Modern Spanish Texts,” Association for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Lisbon, June 30-July 3, 2011.

Panel chair and discussant, “Dislocations between Muslims and Christians in Iberia and the World,”
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 6-9, 2011 (main program).

PRESENTATIONS AT WHEATON COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS

Co-presenter with Touba Ghadessi, “The Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities and
Innovation in the Liberal Arts,” Faculty Lunch Lecture, Wheaton College MA, April 10, 2013.

Co-presenter with Touba Ghadessi, “The New England Renaissance Conference at Wheaton College:
Scholarship and Pedagogy at Work,” Faculty Lunch Lecture, Wheaton College MA, November 16, 2011.

“The Spain-North Africa Project: The Foundation and Development of a New Academic Organization,”
Faculty Lunch Lecture, Wheaton College MA, September 21, 2011.

“The Origins of Military-Authoritarian States in the 20 Century Middle East,” Class of 2015 Open
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House, Wheaton College MA, April 22, 2011.

“An Experimental Approach to Narrating the Parallel Histories of the West and Islam, 400-1000,” Faculty
Lunch Lecture, Wheaton College MA, October 6, 2010.

PARTICIPATION AT TEACHING CONFERENCES

“Internationalizing the Curriculum: The Role of Technology,” National Institute for Technology in
Liberal Education Conference, Whittier College, Los Angeles, CA, November 7-9, 2008.

“Maqam and Meter: An Arabic Music Workshop,” National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
Conference al-Musharaka and Orpheus Alliance Workshop, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, October
27-29, 2006.

“People, Places and Culture: Mapping the MENA Region,” National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education Conference al-Musharaka and Latitude Technology Workshop, Williams College,
Williamstown, MA, August 14-17, 2006.

“Collaborative and Technology-Assisted Approaches to Teaching Arabic Workshop,” National Institute

for Technology in Liberal Education Conference al-Musharaka Workshop, DePauw University,
Greencastle, IN, March 24-27, 2006.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, TAIPEI (2016-PRESENT)
Undergraduate course: Intro to Islamic Civilization, 600-1300 (Spring 2016, 2017, Fall 2017)
Undergraduate course: Modern Middle East, 1800-2010 (Fall 2016, Spring 2018)
Undergraduate course: Facebook and You: History and Media in the Digital Age (Spring 2018)
Undergraduate course: 服務學習 and Introduction to College Skills and Life (Fall 2017)
Graduate course: The Spanish Empire, 1400-1700 (Spring 2016, Fall 2017)
Graduate course: History, the Public, and the Market (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
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VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, TAIPEI (2014)

Undergraduate course: Introduction to Islamic Civilization, 600-1300
Graduate course: The Islamic Caliphate, 600-950

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WHEATON COLLEGE, MA (2005-2016)

Arabic Language Tutorial (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)
First-Year Seminar: Political Islam in Historical Perspective (Fall 2010)
First-Year Seminar: How the Middle East Views the West (Fall 2007)
History 099: Tutorial – Historical Practice and the Public (Spring 2013)
History 099: Tutorial – Model Arab League (Fall 2006)
History 101: Development of Europe from the Medieval Period to 1789 (Spring 2006, 2007, 2010)
History 251: Early Islamic Societies (Fall 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
History 252: Modern Middle East (Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2011)
History 275: Old Regime and Revolutionary France (Fall 2010, 2012)
History 298: Renaissance and Reformation (Fall 2011)
History 299: Spain and the World (Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
History 351: War and Peace in the Mediterranean World (Spring 2008, 2010, 2013)
History 352: Social Movements in Modern Islam (Fall 2006, 2009, 2011, Spring 2007)
History 375: Great Stories in Early Modern Europe (Spring 2011)
History 398: Spain and the Islamic World (Spring 2007)
History 401: Senior Research Seminar in European History (Spring 2007, 2013, Fall 2009)

GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

History 211: Europe from Antiquity to 1700 (Fall 2003)
History 211w: Europe from Antiquity to 1700 with writing component (Fall 1999)
History 316: Southern African History 1497 to present (Fall 1999)

PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION
Assistant translator, from Spanish to English, Hilario Casado Alonso, “Poor Colors, Rich Colors: Spanish
Clothing in the Early Sixteenth Century,” in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2017).

Assistant translator, from French to English, Denis Menjot, “Taxation and Sovereignty in Medieval
Castile,” in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Abingdon, UK: Routledge,
2017).

MANUSCRIPT, ARTICLE, AND EMPLOYMENT REVIEW

Employment reviewer, National Chengchi University, Spring 2018
Book publication reviewer, 貓頭鷹出版 (Owl Publishing, Taiwan), Spring 2018
Grant application reviewer, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Spring 2017
Employment reviewer, National Taipei University, Fall 2016
Tenure reviewer, Rochester University, Fall 2016
Manuscript reviewer, Stanford University Press, Fall 2016
Journal article referee, Cervantes Bulletin, Fall 2016
Journal article referee, 明代研究 (Ming Studies), Spring 2016
Journal article referee, 台大歷史學報 (Historical Inquiry), Spring 2016
Journal article referee, American Philosophical Society, Spring 2012
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Book prospectus referee, Pearson Education, Fall 2011

Manuscript referee, Cambridge University Press, Spring 2011

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY

Committee on Teaching Evaluation, Department of History, Spring 2016-current
Committee on Student Affairs, Department of History, Fall 2017-current

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO WHEATON COLLEGE

Committee on Committees and Agenda, Fall 2010-Spring 2013
Center for Global Education program review representative at Bogaziçi University, Spring 2012
Center for Global Education program review representative at American College of Greece, Spring 2012
Untenured Faculty Organization, Arts and Humanities Divisional Representative, 2009-2010
History Department Search Committee (Ancient-Medieval History), 2008-2009
Founder and Coordinator, Wheaton Faculty Writing Workshop, Providence, RI, 2006-2008
Inter-Departmental Search Committee (Arabic Language/History), 2006-2007
President’s Advisory Group on Institutional Image, 2005-2007
Faculty Advisor: Model League of Arab States Club at Wheaton College, 2006-2007
Faculty Advisor: Peace with the Middle East Learning Community at Wheaton College, 2006-2007

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain
American Historical Association
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Asian Federation for Mediterranean Studies Institutes
Association for Spanish and Portuguese History Studies
Middle East Studies Association
New England Renaissance Conference
Renaissance Society of America
Spain-North Africa Project

LANGUAGES
Spanish (fluent), French (advanced), Arabic (intermediate), Mandarin (intermediate), Latin (intermediate),
Portuguese (reading)

REFERENCES
Professor Anthony Grafton
Department of History
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
grafton@princeton.edu

Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz

Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
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Box 951473
6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
tfruiz@history.ucla.edu

Professor Touba Ghadessi

Department of Art and Art History
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766
ghadessi_touba@wheatonma.edu

Professor Andrew Devereux

Department of History
Loyola Marymount University
University Hall, Suite 3500
1 Loyola Marymount Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
andrew.devereux@lmu.edu