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Fields of Research and Research Interests

  • Jewish and Christian Histories during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
  • History of Philosophy, Knowledge and Science
  • Sephardic Histories and Cultures
  • Jews in the Colonial Americas and the Atlantic World
  • Christian Hebraism
  • Antitrinitarians
  • Cultural Transfer and Cultural Translation
  • Postcolonial Studies and Jewish Studies
  • Knowledge, Trade and Religion

Geographical focus on the Iberian Peninsula, the Northern Netherlands and the Colonial Americas.

 Research Projects

  • Jews in America: From the Beginnings until Independence (monograph).
  • Trading Knowledge: Learned Merchants and Conceptions of the Globe in the 17th Century Dutch Republic (monograph).