I am a historian of the early modern Spanish world and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Early Modern Conversions Project at McGill University’s Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.

I recently defended my doctoral thesis, “The Morisco Problem and the politics of belonging in sixteenth-century Valladolid,” and earned my PhD from the Department of History at the University of Toronto, Canada. I have an MA in History from the University of Toronto and a BA in History and English from the University of New Brunswick (in my hometown of Fredericton).

My research interests include religious conversion and colonial encounters in the early modern Spanish world. My dissertation is a study of ideas of difference and belonging in early modern Castile through an analysis of the transformations in political, juridical, and communal identities that formed part of the processes of religious conversion. Building on this work, my postdoctoral research investigates concepts of purity, race, and nation in reference to the forcibly converted Moriscos in the early modern Spanish Empire.

 

Location

Montreal

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• History
• Humanities

Affiliation

McGill University

Website

https://stephaniecavanaughblog.wordpress.com/