History Department, Occidental College

Contact

Mary Elizabeth (Betsy) Perry  Office:  South Swan 116 (Fall) Phone:  (323) 259-1423 Fax:  (323) 341-4000 E-mail:  meperry@oxy.edu

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       Mary Elizabeth Perry is Adjunct Professor of History at Occidental College and Research Associate for the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  She has published five books and many articles and essays on women's history and marginality in early modern Spain.  Two of her books, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville (available on the internet at http://libro.uca.edu/perry/seville.htm)  and Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville, won the Sierra Prize;  Gender and Disorder has been translated and published in Spain as Ni espada rota, ni mujer que trota.  She has edited two books with Anne J. Cruz:  Culture and Control in Counter Reformation Spain, and Cultural Encounters:  The Impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World (available on the internet at http://www.netlibrary.com).  A specialist in marginal people in 16th and 7th-century Spain, her most recent book is on Spanish Moriscos (baptized Muslims), exploring in particular the roles of  women and children.  The Handless Maiden:  Moriscos and the Politics of Religion (Princeton University Press, 2005) will be available in paperback edition in February 2007.

Courses 2006-2007 (click here for schedule)

Fall

H266        Conflicts and Coexistence:  North Africa,
Spain, and the Middle East