Bert Carlstrom

Bert Carlstrom is an Associate Lecturer in Medieval Mediterranean at the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Islamic History and European History, spanning from the rise of Islam to the Haitian revolution, and contributes to the MA programme. He supervises PhD research on Late Medieval and Early Modern cultural and religious identity in the Iberian world.

His research centers on religion, identity, and cultural interaction in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian world, investigating co-production of religious identity through interfaith dialogue among Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and Mediterranean encounters with Atlantic and American worlds. Approaching history from the margins, he examines lived experiences of marginalized peoples and processes of marginalization, with specific focus on coercively baptized Jews and Muslims in late medieval Spain.

Carlstrom's publications analyze pastoral instruction toward Moriscos in Granada and Christian appropriation of Judaism in 15th-century Iberia, highlighting religious conversion, racialization, and respectability politics. His work extends to the Canary Islands and Caribbean, reflecting broader interest in cross-cultural interactions across early modern Mediterranean and Atlantic spheres.

No scientific awards were mentioned in the provided information.

He has co-supervised one PhD student:

• Ana Roda Sanchez: Racialisation and social segregation of Jewish converts (conversos) in late medieval Iberia (co-supervised with Miri Rubin).