Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston
ME
04240
United States
ABOUT
Libby Nutting is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Pedagogical Innovation in the Humanities at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Libby completed her dissertation, “Morisco Survival: Gender, Conversion, and Migration from Spain to North Africa, 1568-1659,” in 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin. “Morisco Survival” documents how Moriscos resisted and adapted to an increasingly dangerous and violent Mediterranean world where they no longer had a place. Historians usually describe Moriscos as Christian converts from Islam or as crypto-Muslims, but in fact Moriscos could be Muslims, Christians, or neither. Some Moriscos spoke Spanish and others spoke Arabic; they were scholars, artisans, peasants, and slaves. Gender and class shaped Morisco responses to persecution and violence, which varied depending on local circumstances. “Morisco Survival” reveals the lived experiences of early modern state formation and highlights the continued importance of the Mediterranean world as multi-ethnic and multi-religious.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Andalusi Studies
Maghreb Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Minorities
Pedagogy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Spain
Maghreb
Mediterranean Countries
Morocco
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| History
| University of Texas at Austin
MA
| 2010
| History
| University of Texas, Austin
BA
| 2006
| History
| University of Maryland, College Park
Abstracts
Vivir por la Seda: Morisca Women, Household Economies, and the Silk Industry in the Kingdom of Granada, 1492-1570
Morisco Corsair Narratives: Between Islam and Christianity in the Early Modern Mediterranean 1610-1631
