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WORK TITLE: Parables of Coercion
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WEBSITE: https://sethkimmel.wordpress.com/
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EDUCATION:Columbia University, B.A.; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
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Columbia University, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Blinken European Institute, New York, NY, assistant professor, 2012—. Stanford University’s Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, 2010-12.
WRITINGS
Contributor of chapters to books, including Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters, edited by Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, and After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity, edited by Mercedes García-Arenal, Brill, 2016, and others.
Contributor to journals, including Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Comparative Literature, Modern Language Notes, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
SIDELIGHTS
Seth Kimmel is an assistant professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Blinken European Institute, at Columbia University in New York City. Kimmel earned his B.A. at Columbia, before attending the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D.
In 2015 he published Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, which is a study of the forced conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although it is a subject that has been written about before, other historians have concentrated on the experiences of the converts themselves. Kimmel, however, focuses on how religious reform and scholarly innovation were formed by questions around conversion. The debates over forced conversion were also debates that separated the different scholarly disciplines. At first, Muslims were allowed to keep their laws and religion, but in 1502, Muslims in Castile were told they had to convert to Christianity or they would have to leave the kingdom. On the Columbia University Web site, Kimmel explained: “Parables of Coercion … is an intellectual history of New Christian assimilation in the sixteenth century. The book argues that canon law, philology, history writing, and other disciplines were all transformed by hotly contested debates over eradicating Islam and Judaism from the Iberian Peninsula and converting non-Christians elsewhere in the Spanish empire.”
W.D. Phillips, writing in Choice, strongly recommended the book and wrote: “Serious scholars of the history of ideas will welcome this erudite and enlightening volume.”
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Choice, April, 2016, W.D. Phillips, review of Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain, p. 1229.
ONLINE
Columbia University, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, http://laic.columbia.edu/ (April 30, 2017), author bio.
Seth Kimmel Home Page, https://sethkimmel.wordpress.com/ (April 30, 2017).*
Seth Kimmel
Seth Kimmel
Assistant Professor
Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, The Blinken European Institute
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408 Casa Hispánica
Department of Latin American & Iberian Cultures
612 W. 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
OFFICE HOURS
On leave spring 2017.
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(212) 854-6238
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(212) 854-5322
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Courses
The Spanish Inquisition
Andalusi Iberias
Theories of Universalism
The New Poetry
A Reader of Early Modern Spain
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Seth Kimmel studies the literatures and cultures of medieval and early modern Iberia. He earned his B.A. in Comparative Literature and Religion here at Columbia and his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. Before joining Columbia’s Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures in 2012, Seth spent two years as a member of Stanford University’s Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities.
academic statement
My first book, Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain (University of Chicago Press, 2015), is an intellectual history of New Christian assimilation in the sixteenth century. The book argues that canon law, philology, history writing, and other disciplines were all transformed by hotly contested debates over eradicating Islam and Judaism from the Iberian Peninsula and converting non-Christians elsewhere in the Spanish empire. An in-depth audio interview about the book is available here.
My second book project studies the relationship between cartography and bibliography in the early modern period and, more generally, the impossible dream of acquiring and organizing universal knowledge. In addition to the history of science, the history of the book, and what we might call "multiconfessional Iberia," other research and teaching interests include Mediterranean and transatlantic studies, literary theory, and comparative literature.
I teach both undergraduate and graduate classes on medieval and early modern Iberia, always with a comparative approach and often with a focus on the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In recent years, I have taught seminars on theories of secularism and religion, the history of reading, early modern cartography, Renaissance poetics, and cultural exchange and conflict among Iberian Christians, Muslims, and Jews. Most of my classes include some primary source research component and visits to New York area archives and libraries, and in all of my classes I try to help students become more effective and convincing analytical writers, as well as thinkers and readers. Students in my classes make ample use of CourseWorks and Wikispaces, and have occasionally experimented with ambitious digital mapping projects and research in electronic archives.
I strive to be an accessible and candid teacher and adviser, and I am always happy to brainstorm research ideas and troubleshoot writing issues. So please don't hesitate to stop by my office hours or drop me an email!
Kimmel, Seth. Parables of coercion: conversion and
knowledge at the end of Islamic Spain
W.D. Phillips
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1229.
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Kimmel (Latin American and Iberian cultures, Columbia) examines the trajectories of attitudes toward the Morisco (converted Muslim) minority
in Spain held by a variety of intellectuals from the Christian absorption of Muslim Granada in 1492 to the expulsion of that minority in the early
17th century. Initial agreements allowed Muslims to keep their laws and their religion, but a revolt in 1499 led to harsher measures in 1502, when
Muslims in Castile were forced to convert to Christianity or leave the kingdom, as were Muslims in Valencia and Aragon in 1525 and 1526. The
author shows the various efforts to make faithful Christians of the Moriscos, many of whom seemed to resist covertly. By the late 1560s, the
second Alpujarras War in the south pitted unsuccessful Morisco rebels against royal troops. When contemporary historians of that war portrayed
the rebels as impossible to assimilate to either the church or the state, they helped sway official opinion toward favoring the expulsions. Kimmel
carefully reviews a vast corpus of material and argues that in many ways, the attempts to assimilate the Moriscos and the ultimate perceptions of
the failure of assimilation were far more complex than usually perceived. Serious scholars of the history of ideas will welcome this erudite and
enlightening volume. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.--W. D. Phillips, University of
Minnesota
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