Claudia Mineo

Assistant Professor of History

Claudia Mineo received a dual Bachelor's degree in History and Spanish Literature and Language from Loyola Marymount University (2000). In 2006, she earned her doctoral degree in Early Modern European history from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mineo specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, particularly focusing on questions of political theory and practice. Her dissertation, titled Law, Litigation, and Power: The Struggle over Municipal Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Castile, studied how the interaction between monarchy and municipality hinged upon the definition, interpretation, and enforcement of law. She has also written on early modern political treatises; her article, As Prudent as the Serpent: Machiavelli and the Question of Dissimulation in Saavedra Fajardo's Empresas Políticas, will appear in an upcoming Toronto Press publication of collected essays on Mediterranean history. In 2003-4, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Spain, where she visited national and local archives as well as studied sixteenth-century paleography. At FSU, Mineo will be offering various undergraduate and graduate courses on the Early Modern period: Spain and Portugal, the Reformation, popular political culture, women, and the Atlantic world.

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				Claudia Mineo Assistant Professor of History Claudia Mineo received a dual Bachelor's degree in History and Spanish Literature and Language from Loyola Marymount University (2000). In 2006, she earned her doctoral degree in Early Modern European history from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mineo specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, particularly focusing on questions of political theory and practice. Her dissertation, titled Law, Litigation, and Power: The Struggle over Municipal Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Castile, studied how the interaction between monarchy and municipality hinged upon the definition, interpretation, and enforcement of law. She has also written on early modern political treatises; her article, As Prudent as the Serpent: Machiavelli and the Question of Dissimulation in Saavedra Fajardo's Empresas Políticas, will appear in an upcoming Toronto Press publication of collected essays on Mediterranean history. In 2003-4, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Spain, where she visited national and local archives as well as studied sixteenth-century paleography. At FSU, Mineo will be offering various undergraduate and graduate courses on the Early Modern period: Spain and Portugal, the Reformation, popular political culture, women, and the Atlantic world.