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Justine A. Walden      |    

HISTORIAN

EARLY MODERN EUROPE ·   MEDITERRANEAN  ·  WEST CENTRAL AFRICA  ·  CATHOLICISM

early modern global, social, and religious history::
europe and the mediterranean;
africa and the caribbean

I am a historian of early modern Europe and the Mediterranean, Catholicism, race, and African diaspora. I bring Italian, French, and Spanish printed sources and imperial archives into conversation to recover how Catholicism and missionaries interacted with the lives of Black Africans.

PROFILE      

Ph.D.

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Yale University
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RECENT FELLOWSHIP

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Harvard Center for Advanced Studies in the Renaissance, Berenson Fellow

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METHODS 

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Archival research, intellectual, cultural, social, and religious history, book history, digital humanities

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