Come celebrate new books by Jean Brink (Emeritus Professor and ACMRS Founding Director) and Hannah Barker (Assistant Professor of History)!
Join us at the Bistro at University Club as ACMRS celebrates the release of two new books, Jean R. Brink's
Jean R. Brink is a Research Scholar at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, and the founding director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Hannah Barker is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University. Her research interests center around ideologies and practices of slavery in the medieval Mediterranean, especially the slave trade from the Black Sea to the markets of Cairo, Genoa, and Venice during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. She is particularly interested in the merchants who conducted this trade and in the processes of shipping, marketing, and purchasing slaves.