Mayte Green Mercado

Mayte Green-Mercado holds a BA in European History from the University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, specializing in Islamic Studies. Her research examines medieval and early modern Mediterranean history, with a focus on questions of religion, politics, identity, and race and ethnicity. At Rutgers University–Newark, she teaches courses on Islamic civilization, Islamic history in Spain and North Africa, and early modern Mediterranean history, and also leads study abroad programs around the Mediterranean. Her current book project explores histories of displacement, migration, and refugees in the early modern Mediterranean. She serves as Campus Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers–Newark and as Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Minor in the History Department.