Faculty Bio
Dr. Carolyn Salomons
Associate Professor, History
Chair of Social Sciences
Faculty Association President
Phone: 403-254-3737
Email: carolyn.salomons@stmu.ca
I obtained my PhD in History from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, with a focus on early modern European history. My research focus was on fifteenth century Spanish history, exploring the changing relationship between Christians and Jews in this period.
Since coming to work at St. Mary’s, I have developed course on Medieval Spain, Tudor and Stuart Britain, the Impact of the Enlightenment, and the History of Science, and regularly teach our Capstone preparatory class, History 401, The Historian’s Craft.
My current research project explores the ways in which popular culture (especially film, TV, and video games) collides with history, and the impact of that collision on public perceptions of the past.
Specialization/Research Interest
Early modern Europe, medieval Europe, popular culture and history, religious history, Spain and its empire, Tudor and Stuart Britain.
Education
PhD, History, The Johns Hopkins University, 2014
MA, History, University of Alberta, 2007
MA, English, Carleton University, 1996
BA, English, Simon Fraser University, 1994
- “Jewish Appeals to the Crown in Late Fifteenth-Century Spain”, Intersections, 8: no.2, (2025), 20-21.
- “The dissemination of professional scholarship: the death of the monograph?” Intersections, 6: no.2, (2023), 57.
- “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, (Editorial Albartros, 2019), 41-53.
- A Church united in itself: Hernando de Talavera and the religious culture of fifteenth century Castile, Catholic Historical Review, 103: no. 4 (2017), 639-662.
- “An impossible quid pro quo”: Representations of Tomás de Torquemada, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 41: no.1 2016.
- Hybrid Historiography: Pre- and Post-conquest Latin America and Perceptions of the Past, Past Imperfect, 12: no.1, 2006.
- What the Age Demanded: Power and Resistance in Pre-modern and Post-modern Texts, Illumine, 5: no. 1, 2006.