CelineÌýDauverd
- Professor
- EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
Address
ÌýÌý Hellems W113
Office Hours
Fall 2026ÌýÌýÌýT 2:00-3:00 PM / Also by appointment via Zoom
Professor Dauverd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the history of the Ancient Mediterranean and pre-modern Europe such as the Italian Renaissance, Witchcraft and Magic, Ancient Mediterranean Cosmos,ÌýMedieval Spain, Roman Gladiators and Prostitutes, and Legal History of Europe. ÌýÌý Ìý
Professor Dauverd received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural relations between Iberia, Italy, and North Africa in late medieval-premodern times (1400-1600). Her first book, Ìý(Cambridge University Press, NY 2015) examines the role of the Genoese trade diaspora in southern Italy in the context of the Spanish-Habsburg expansion in the Mediterranean Sea. Her second book, Ìý(Cambridge University Press, NY 2020) won the Eugene V. Kayden Book Award in Religious Studies. It investigates the link between imperialism and faith through an analysis of the Spanish viceroys’ role in religious rituals in Early Modern Naples. Dauverd’s third manuscript, Colonialism and Resistance in Early Modern Europe: Rebellion, Magic, and Reason in the Italian States,Ìý1530-1760Ìý(under peer review by Cambridge University Press) explores the religious claims of Corsican resistanceÌýto Genoese colonialism in the context of the wars between Spain and Türkiye.
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She is currently working on two book projects. The first, All the KingsÌýof the Mediterranean:ÌýIberian Kings, Renaissance Popes, and Maghrebi Shariffs during the North African Conquests 1450-1630 (for Cambridge University Press), assesses interactions between Muslim and Christian rulers through the prism of the popes’Ìýpursuit of imperial power.ÌýThe second, Cross-confessional Málaga: Christian, Converso, and Morisco relations through Resistance and Reconstruction, 1487-1609 (for Oxford University Press) scrutinizes the ways Christian Malagueños challenged the Spanish Crown’s stringent policies vis-à -vis non-correligionists.
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Dauverd was awarded long-term residential fellowships from the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California Irvine; the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University in New York; the Koch Centre, Wadham College at the University of Oxford; and I Tatti Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (Berenson fellow).
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She is a recipient of fellowships from the Casa de Velázquez Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies; the Center for Humanities and the Arts at CU °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï; the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in Istanbul, Rome and Tangiers; the European University Institute in Florence (Fernand Braudel fellow); and the Francis Weber and Andrew Mellon Foundation at the Huntington Library. In recent years she has received Visiting Professorships from the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the Sapienza Università di Roma, and the Università di Pisa.
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Professor Dauverd is accepting both M.A. and Ph.D. students.Ìý
Recent graduates have worked on England, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands examining map making, women and gender, race relations, religious wars, visual arts, and medical practices. She is particularly interested in mentoring students in the fields of European and Mediterranean history.
Recent graduates have worked on England, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands examining map making, women and gender, race relations, religious wars, visual arts, and medical practices. She is particularly interested in mentoring students in the fields of European and Mediterranean history.
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