Spencer T. B. Hunt
Education
M.M.S., University of Notre Dame (2019); M.A. in History, Western Michigan University (2016); Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Classics with distinction, UCLA (2013); B.A. in History with honors, Pitzer College (2012)
Year of Matriculation
2017
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Areas of Interest
Medieval Mediterranean, Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, Interreligious Relations, and Apostasy
Profile
My research interests include interreligious relations throughout the medieval Mediterranean with special focus on Christian-Muslim interactions in Medieval Spain.
My dissertation—with the working title "Wayward Sons, Traitorous Brothers: Views on Apostasy in the Religious and Legal Writings of Medieval Spain and North Africa"—is a comparative examination of normative views of apostasy in Christian Kingdoms of Northern Spain and the Islamic polities of Granada and Western North Africa.
Recent Scholarly Activity
Conference Papers
- "Polemics as Intrareligious Discourse: Reading Ramon Martí’s anti-Islamic Polemics as Christian Apologetics," presented at Midwest Medieval History Conference, September 2019
- "The Polemical Heritage of Pseudo Pedro Pascual's Sobre la seta mahometana,” presented at the LAMS IV Symposium, Pomona College, February 2019
Teaching Experience
- T.A.—Transforming the Roman World, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2019
- T.A.—The Crusades, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2019
- T.A.—The Medieval World, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2018