Research
I am an historian of early modern Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean world, and am a second field medievalist. Much of my archival research has taken place in Granada, Madrid, and Genoa.
My first book, Morisco Knights in Renaissance Spain: The Granada Venegas Family in History and Memory can be pre-ordered now from Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194244/
Read my 2025 article in The Historical Journal on Renaissance self-fashioning here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/360F81ED276BF144179436B8C697EB0C/S0018246X24000499a.pdf/renaissance-self-fashioning-after-44-years-hybridity-conversos-individuation-and-litterature-totale.pdf
Read my 2024 article in eHumanista on Jesuit notions of nobility here:
https://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/sitefiles/ehum60.et_etr%20edits.pdf
Below is a picture from when I participated in the NEH Summer Seminar, “The Alhambra and Spain’s Islamic Past,” in 2015, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, a speaker series I organized for my department at FIU, and a conference I co-hosted with Hugh Thomas at the University of Miami.
Read my two Encyclopedia articles here:
Terry-Roisin, Elizabeth Ashcroft. “Hernando de Acuña.” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Marco Sgarbi. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishers, 2018.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1133-
Terry-Roisin, Elizabeth Ashcroft. “Chivalry, Renaissance Conception of.” In Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Marco Sgarbi. Dordrecht: Springer International Publishers. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_846-1
Co-authored book chapter
Look for Ignacio Navarrete and my article, “Nobles and Court Culture,” in Brill’s Companion to the Spanish Renaissance (2019).
