Céline Dauverd

Céline Dauverd is a historian of the Mediterranean specializing in Italy, Spain, and North Africa with a focus on the relation between empires and religion in pre-modern times.

Céline Dauverd has published three monographs with Cambridge University Press (Imperial Ambitions in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 2015; Church and State in Spanish Italy, 2020; Colonialism and Resistance in Early Modern Europe, 2026) with a fourth one in the works (All the Kings of the Mediterranean: Iberian Kings, Renaissance Popes, and Maghrebi Shariffs during the North African Conquests 1450-1630).

She has received fellowships from institutions such as the Casa Velázquez Madrid, Columbia University New York, the European University Institute Florence, I Tatti Harvard University, the University of California Irvine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from foundations such as the Ahmanson, Andrew Mellon, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (NEH).

She has obtained Visiting Professorships from the Historisches Kolleg in Munich, the Sapienza Università di Roma, and the Università di Pisa. As a Koch History Centre Fellow, Professor Dauverd investigates relations between Christians, Moriscos and Conversos during the Spanish Monarchs’ conquest of Málaga in 1487.

Her project, Cross-confessional Málaga: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim interaction through Resistance and Construction, 1487-1609, investigates the techniques that Malagueños crafted to circumvent the Crown’s rationale of national cohesion through ethnic purity.