Biography

Celine Dauverd received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on the socio-cultural relations between Spain, Italy, and North Africa during the early modern era (1450-1650). She has published monographs on Genoese merchants, on Spanish Viceroys, and on Corsicans rebels (all for Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on a new book project on the relation between Muslims and Christians through the role of the papacy during the early modern conquest of the Maghrib. She teaches courses on Convivencia Spain, Renaissance Italy, European Witchcraft, Mediterranean cosmos, and Gladiators and Prostitutes in Ancient Rome.



At the EUI, Dauverd is working on a book project called All the Kings of the Mediterranean which explores the Iberian conquest of North Africa (1450-1620) through the prism of seven Renaissance popes. It examines how the papacy redefined its imperium using the notion of “inhabited world,” or oikoumene to claim sovereignty over the whole Mediterranean world, seeking leadership over all confessions. Pontiffs both supported and competed with Spanish and Portuguese by presenting themselves as shepherds of all humanity.