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Mayte Green-Mercado

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Mayte Green-Mercado is a founding co-director of the Mediterranean Displacements Project. Her work centers on the connected histories of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Mediterranean. Her first book examined the political culture of Moriscos—Spanish Muslims who were forcibly converted to Catholicism beginning in 1501—through their deployment of prophecies about the End Times. She also edited a volume  for the Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient titled “Speaking the End Times: Prophecy and Messianism in Early Modern Eurasia,” JESHO– Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 61 (2018): 18-90. Her current book project, Mediterranean Displacements. Morisco Migrations in the Sixteenth Century traces the history of migrations and displacement of Moriscos around the Mediterranean basin, from their forced conversion to Catholicism until their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula in 1609. Prof. Green-Mercado is a board member of The Mediterranean Seminar, an international forum for collaboration in research and teaching in Mediterranean Studies; and board member of the Spain-North Africa Project, an interdisciplinary scholarly organization that promotes the exploration of the western Mediterranean as a unified region through interdisciplinary approaches and intercultural and inter-institutional cooperation. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Royal Asiatic Society’s book series Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Book Fund. She has directed study abroad programs in Granada, Spain, and Malta.

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