Mayte Green-Mercado

Mayte Green-Mercado received her BA in European History from the University of Puerto Rico, and her PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago, specializing in Islamic Studies. She teaches courses on Islamic history and culture in the medieval and early modern Western Mediterranean. She also teaches courses on migration in the Mediterranean. Her courses deal with questions of religion, politics, identity, and race and ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods.

Her current book project is concerned with histories of displacement, migration, and refugees in the early modern Mediterranean. 

Publications:

• Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern
  Mediterranean (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019)

• "The Forced Conversion and the Moriscos,” in The Handbook of Muslim Iberia, Routledge

• “Ethnic Groups in Early Modern Spain,” in A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance, Brill 2018

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Genealogies of Race. Racialization of Religion in Early Modern Iberia,” Conference: Racialization. A Plurality of Paradigms, European Union Center at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Pavia, Italy

• “Migration and Diaspora,” Decolonizing Iberian Studies Series, Amherst College, MA

• “Premodern Race and Religion,” Critical Race Conversations, Folger Shakespeare

Previous Organizations: 

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• The University of Chicago 

Accomplishments:

• Council for American Research Centers Abroad (CAORC) Research Fellowship for Tunisia and Algeria

• US Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language

• Warren I Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University

Upcoming Projects:

• Genealogies of Race Podcast

• (Dis)locations: Forced Migration, Displacement, and Racial Justice Project

• Arabic Language Initiative

UISFL is a Department of Education grant that provides funding to plan, develop, and carry out programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

Professors Mayte Green-Mercado and Amir Moosavi were awarded this grant to develop the Arabic Language Initiative (ALI) at Rutgers University-Newark which aims at expanding Arabic Language instruction, courses on Middle Eastern history, politics, society, and culture, as well as study abroad and service-learning opportunities for Rutgers-Newark undergraduate students. The Arabic Language Initiative will also launch a lecture series devoted to exploring questions of human displacement and transitional justice. 

https://isgrjstories.rutgers.edu/sponsored-research-projects/index.html#group-section-Rutgers-Research-Initiatives-93YGVBRzBK

The goal of the Race and Religion Series, the first of its kind out of ISGRJ-Newark, is to investigate the intersection of race, religion, and immigration. During the spring semester the series will feature talks by leading experts on the racialization of Muslims in the United States by exploring issues of diversity, discrimination, inclusion and exclusion, and religious freedom. 

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/news/race-and-religion-series-article