Faculty Bio
Dr. Carolyn Salomons
Associate Professor, History. Chair of Social Sciences, Faculty Association President
Dr. Salomons earned her PhD in History in 2014, from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Her research has focused on late medieval Spanish history, exploring relationships between Christians and Jews in the 15th century.
Currently, she is exploring ways in which the public consume history (fiction, film and TV, video games, etc.) and how academics can bridge the gap between professional and 'popular' history with their expertise.
She primarily teaches classes on medieval and early modern Europe.
Specialization/Research Interest:
Popular media and the past: the shifting landscape of public engagement with history
Education
PhD History, Johns Hopkins University
MA History, University of Alberta
MA English, Carleton University
BA English, Simon Fraser University
- “‘Such designs as were righteous in themselves and resolutely conducted’: Isabel, history, and mythmaking”, in Mito e historia en la televisión y el cine español, ed. Christine Blackshaw, Valencia: Editorial Albartros, 2019
- “A Church United in Itself: Hernando de Talavera and the Religious Culture of Fifteenth-Century Castile” The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 103, Number 4, Autumn 2017
- “An impossible quid pro quo”: Representations of Tomás de Torquemada,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 41: Iss. 1, Article 1.
- “Hybrid Historiography: Pre- and Post-conquest Latin America and Perceptions of the Past” Past Imperfect, University of Alberta, 2006.
- “What the Age Demanded: Power and Resistance in Pre-modern and Post-modern Texts” Illumine, University of Victoria, 2006