Debra Blumenthal

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2000

Office: HSSB 4217
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Phone: (805) 893-8208 Fax: (805) 893-8795

'Comares': Midwives, wetnurses and the construction of maternity in late medieval and early modern Spain

Enemies and Familiars: Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009)
Winner of the 2011 Premio del Rey, American Historical Association; Honorable Mention, 2010 Best Book Prize, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
"La Casa dels Negres: Black African solidarity in late-medieval Valencia”
in Black Africans in Renaissance Europe edited by K.P. Lowe and Thomas Earl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
"Demandes de libertat: Demandas de esclavos en el medievo tardío valenciano”
in Debates y Perspectivas (Madrid, 2004)
"Defending their Masters' Honour: Slaves as Violent Offenders in Fifteenth-Century Valencia"
in A Great Effusion of Blood?: Interpreting Medieval Violence, edited by Mark Meyerson, Oren Falk, and Daniel Thierry (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2004)
"Sclaves molt fortes, senyors invalts: Sex, lies, and paternity suits in late medieval Spain”
in Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World edited by Marta Vicente and Luis Corteguera (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Press, 2003)

History 115P: Proseminar in Medieval History
History 116: The Civilization of the High Middle Ages: 1050 to 1350
History 117DR: Directed Readings in Medieval History
History 118A: The Crusades in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
History 118B: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain: Conquest, Colonization, and Coexistence
History 215A-B: Seminar in Medieval History
History 102MM: Topics in Medieval Medicine
History 102DB: Slavery in the Premodern World

Sargent-Faull Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-2004)
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend (2003)
NEH Summer Seminar: "Disease in the Middle Ages" at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK (2009)
Evelyn S. Nation and Elizabeth Crahan Fellow at the Huntington Library (2010-2011)
2011 Premio del Rey, American Historical Association
Award given biennially to the best book on Spain's early history and culture, 500-1516 A.D., published in the last two years.