Thomas Barton

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Professor Thomas Barton PhD
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Born	Thomas William Barton (1976-08-02) 2 August 1976 Stanford, California
🏳️ Nationality	American
💼 Occupation
Title	Professor of History University of San Diego (2018–present) President, American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (2021–present)

Thomas W. Barton, (born 2 August 1976) is an American academic specializing in the ethno-religious and institutional history of premodern Iberia and the Mediterranean. An Associate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Barton has received numerous fellowships and grants in support of his archival research and writing, including full-year awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019-2020) and the American Council of Learned Societies (2010-2011). Since June 2021, he has been the President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of San Diego. He previously taught at Yale University and Oberlin College. He co-founded and has directed or co-directed for many years the Program for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of San Diego. His brother is Gregory M. Barton, Class of '36 Endowed Chair of Immunology and Pathogenesis at the University of California, Berkeley.

Early life and education

Barton was born on 2 August 1976 in Stanford, California. He was educated at Palo Alto Senior High School. From 1994 to 1998, he studied ancient, Byzantine, and medieval history at Princeton University, where he studied under Peter Brown and Elaine Pagels, among others. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in History (summa cum laude) and a Certificate in Medieval Studies in 1998. His senior thesis on early Byzantine hagiography (The Form and Function of Hagiography in an Age of Transition), advised by Professor Ruth Webb of Classics, was co-awarded the Strayer Prize for the best thesis in Medieval History in 1998. From 1999 to 2006, he pursued doctoral studies in medieval European and Mediterranean history at Yale University, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon and Jacob K. Javitz fellow. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2006. His doctoral advisors were Paul Freedman, Adam Kosto, and Carlos Eire. Based on archival research funded by an assortment of grants (including a fellowship from Fulbright España, the John Perry Miller Fellowship for Research, and a Foreign Language and Area Studies grant), his doctoral thesis was titled "Conquest and Consolidation: Authority and Territoriality in New Catalonia, 1000-1300."

Academic career

Barton began his career while still a doctoral student at Yale, serving as a teaching assistant within the History Department. In 2006, after spending two years researching at numerous ecclesiastical, noble, and royal archives throughout Spain and writing in Spain, France, and England, he took a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College where he taught ancient and medieval history. From 2007-2013, he was Assistant Professor of History at the University of San Diego. He served as Associate Professor from 2013 through 2019. Since 2019, he has been Professor of History.

Apart from publishing numerous articles and book chapters, including a long article on the development of the use of Muslim sharecroppers by Christian landlords that won the 2012 Bishko Best Article Prize from the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Barton has thus far produced two award-winning monographs. The inaugural volume of the celebrated new book series Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475-1755, Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon (Penn State Press, 2015) concerned the battles waged against the monarchy over jurisdiction over resident Jews (and Muslims) between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. It received the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies for the Best Book on Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History between 2015 and 2016 and the Best First Book Award from the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, which considered all first books written in Portuguese, Catalan, Castilian, or English between 2013 and 2015. His second monograph, Victory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia (Cornell University Press, 2019), challenged the traditional conception of the Reconquista by drawing attention to the complex local traditions of conquest and collaboration between Christian and Muslim regimes spanning centuries. It received the prestigious biennial Premio del Rey for 2020-2021 awarded by the American Historical Association and was a "Highly Commended" Finalist for the biennial Royal Studies Journal and University of Winchester Book Award. He is currently completing a third monograph on the post-conquest development of bishoprics entitled From the Hands of the Infidels: Conquest, Christianization, and Episcopal Power in the Medieval Crown of Aragon. A fourth monograph is also at an advanced stage of development. Community over Kingdom: Medieval Christian Hegemony in Local Context employs a mixture of municipal and royal records to explore how city governments asserted their authority over local non-Christian residents during the tumultuous fourteenth century.

Barton has also organized a number of major conferences, two of which have yielded three co-edited volumes of essays.

Selected Works

• Barton, Thomas W. (2011). "Muslims in Christian Countrysides: Reassessing Exaricus Tenures in the Crown of Aragon". Medieval Encounters. 17: 233–320. doi:10.1163/157006711X579867.
• Barton, Thomas W. (2012). "Jurisdictional Conflict, Strategies of Litigation, and Mechanisms of Compromise in Thirteenth-Century Tortosa". Recerca. 14: 201–248.
• Barton, Thomas W. (2015). Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-06472-7. Search this book on
• Barton, Thomas W.; McDonough, Susan; McDougall, Sara, eds. (2017). Boundaries of the Medieval and Wider World: Festschrift in Honour of Paul Freedman. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 9782503568454.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
• Barton, Thomas W. (2019). Victory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501736162. Search this book on
• Barton, Thomas W.; Kelleher, Marie; Zaldívar, Antonio, eds. (2020). Iberia, the Mediterranean, and the World in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Pedralbes, Revista d'Història Moderna, no. 40. Search this book on
• Barton, Thomas W.; Kelleher, Marie; Zaldívar, Antonio, eds. (2022). Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000-1700. Turnhout: Brepols. Search this book on

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