Alexandra Montero Peters

Alexandra Montero Peters is an Assistant Professor of Medieval European History at Northwestern University. She specializes in cross-cultural intellectual exchanges in the medieval Mediterranean, with a focus on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations, premodern race and gender, and codicology. Her current book project, Representations of Power: Alfonso X, the Book of Games, and the Islamic Tradition, examines how medieval rulers articulated authority through cross-confessional intellectual traditions.

• Geographic Focus: Middle Eastern and North African History, Iberia
• Thematic Focus: Political and Policy History, War and Empire, Religious History

Her research has been supported by prestigious grants including the American Association of University Women, Erasmus+, and the Medieval Academy of America. She previously taught at Texas State University and Bowdoin College.

• Active in Material History Lab at Harris 108 (Leopold Room)
• Expertise in analyzing Arabic and Castilian manuscripts
• Developing second monograph on racialized representations of India in medieval Christian and Islamic traditions