Editor/contributor, Iberia
and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Studies in
Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995). Among his dozen articles are those in Friars and Jews in the Middles Ages and Renaissance, ed. McMichael; in Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval
and Early Modern Spain, ed. Meyerson; Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft: Essays in Honor
of J.B. Russell, ed. Ferreiro; Medieval Encounters;
Journal of Medieval History, Thought, Comitatus. And Recent
reviews in Speculum, Journal of Church and State, The
Medieval Review, American Historical Review and various other journals Over
40 research presentations at annual meetings of the American
Historical Association, International Congress of Medieval
Studies, and at international conferences in Barcelona, Genoa, Jerusalem
and Palma de Majorca.
Dr.
Simon has completed a translation and commentary on the Lay
Christian-Jewish Disputation of Majorca (1286), and a monograph on The Muslims and Jews of Crusader Majorca: A
Comparative Study. His current projects include a translation and introduction to Ricaldo da Montecroce's Itinerary and a study of Church and Society in Ramon Llull's Majorca.
Dr. Simon has been since 2001 the General Editor of the Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, book series "The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World"; and an Editor, along with Hugh Kennedy and Paul Magdalino (St. Andrews), David Abulafia (Cambridge), and Benjamin Arbel (Tel Aviv), of the Brill book series "The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500." He previously served a five-year stint 1999-2003 as Executive Editor of the journal Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue.
His
graduate course rotation includes readings courses on Medieval
Women; the Crusades; research seminars on Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations; Mediterranean
Spain and the Catalan Grand Chronicles; and the Mendicants
and their World 1200-1500; and Heresy, Inquisition, and Dissent 1100-1700;
a sources and bibliography course
entitled Research Techniques in Medieval History; and Documentary Latin
Paleography 1100-1500. Informal gatherings of his students frequently work on diplomatics and paleography, a 2007-2008 group read all 4 vols. of Setton's Papacy and the Levant; a group 2008-9 is reading all 5 vols. of Goitein's Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Cairo Geniza.
His Ph.D. students have won Fulbrights to Spain and Italy; he has directed c. 20 M.A. theses and his M.A. students have gone on to study at London School of Economics, Toronto, UCLA, UCSB, Northwestern, Penn State, Notre Dame, and various other schools. His students have conducted archival and library research in the Vatican, Paris, London; ALicante, Barcelona, Girona, and Madrid; Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Palermo, Parma, and Pisa.
