Rate My Professor Antonio Zaldivar

Zaldívar's publications include the co-edited special issue Iberia, the Mediterranean, & the World in the Medieval & Early Modern Periods (Pedralbes, vol. 40, 2020) with Thomas W. Barton and Marie A. Kelleher; “La lengua como instrumento de diplomacia en la correspondencia entre las cancillerías reales de Aragón y Mallorca, 1341-1349” in Diplomacia y desarrollo del Estado en la Corona de Aragón (2020); “Emphasizing Urgency in the Romance: An Example of Strategic Codeswitching in the Crown of Aragon's Thirteenth-Century Royal Chancery” in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (2017); “James I and the Rise of Codeswitching Diplomacy in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia” (Viator 47:3, 2016); “Patricians’ Embrace of the Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona” (Medieval Encounters 18, 2012); and contributions such as the introduction to Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000–1700 (2022) and “Reconsidering the Shift from Latin to Romance in the Castilian Chancery” (2022). He has presented papers, including on language as a diplomatic instrument between Aragonese and Majorcan royal chanceries. Zaldívar teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as HIST 101: World History to 1500, HIST 301: Historical Methods, HIST 313A: Early Medieval Europe, HIST 313B: Late Medieval Europe, HIST 314: The Crusades, HIST 315: Church Reform, Heresy, and Witchcraft in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, HIST 317: Renaissance and Reformation Europe, HIST 400: Medieval Spain: A Land of Three Religions, HIST 512: Teaching History: Theory and Practice, and HIST 699C: Independent Study. He serves on the CHABSS College Governance Council and the CSUSM Academic Senate.