Isabel O'Connor
Professor Isabel A. O’Connor is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Indiana University South Bend. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in December 1998. Her book, A Forgotten Community: The Mudejar Aljama of Xàtiva, 1240-1327 was published by E. J. Brill in 2002. She is the author of several articles that examine the interaction between Muslims, Jews and Christians in thirteenth-century Spain. Her most recent publications study how the Christian legal system processed cases involving Mudejars and why the conquered Muslims, who after the Christian conquests enjoyed “judicial independence,” brought their cases against Christians, Jews, and other Mudejars to the local Christian courts. Currently, she is writing an article about the formation of individual and communal Mudejar identity as a response mechanism to the colonial society established by the Christians. She is also working on a second book about the Mudejars of Cocentaina.
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