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).
Recent articles in Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval
and Early Modern Spain, ed. Meyerson; Medieval
Encounters; Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft: Essays in Honor
of J.B. Russell, ed. Ferreiro; Medieval Encounters;
Journal of Medieval History, Thought, and Comitatus. Recent
reviews in Speculum, Journal of Church and State, The
Medieval Review, and American Historical Review. Over
30 research presentations at annual meetings of the American
Historical Association, International Congress of Medieval
Studies, and at international conferences in Barcelona, Jerusalem
and Palma de Majorca.
Dr.
Simon has completed a translation and commentary on the Lay
Christian-Jewish Disputation of Majorca (1286), and is completing
a monograph on The Muslims and Jews of Crusader Majorca: A
Comparative Study. He is co-editor and contributor to
forthcoming volumes on Women and the Medieval Catalan World,
and on The Friars and the Jews in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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; and Heresy, Inquisition, and Dissent 1100-1700;
research seminars on Muslim-Christian-Jewish Relations; Mediterranean
Spain and the Catalan Grand Chronicles; and the Mendicants
and their World 1200-1500; a sources and bibliography course
entitled Research Techniques in Medieval History; and occasional
tutorials on Jews in Medieval Spain and on Documentary Latin
Paleography 1100-1500. He has directed a dozen M.A. theses
to date; his students have conducted archival research in Barcelona
and Girona, Spain, and Parma, Pisa, Florence, and Bologna,
Italy; and has a half dozen Ph.D. students currently working
on Western Mediterranean or Iberian topics.
