Walden, Justine

Justine Walden is a transnational historian of early modern social, cultural, and religious life (1500-1800). Her work has investigated Italian Catholicism; Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Mediterranean; marginalization and enslavement; African-European interactions in coastal Africa and the Atlantic; antislavery and resistance; constructions of blackness, whiteness, and race, and histories of mentalities, printing, and manuscripts. Her scholarship has been supported by Harvard’s Center for Advanced Studies in the Italian Renaissance, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute of Research in the Humanities, and Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.