Tizzoni’s research focuses on the transformation of the Roman world in the fifth through seventh centuries CE. He is particularly interested in questions of identity, social cohesion, and how cultural production can be used to help understand and navigate times of drastic social change (such as those witnessed in the aftermath of the Roman Empire in North Africa). As an interdisciplinary cultural historian, Tizzoni employs late antique Latin poetry to engage with these questions, focusing on the collections that have survived from sixth-century North Africa and seventh-century Iberia. He is currently writing an open-access book with Kısmet Press entitled The Maghreb in Late Antiquity.

Before coming to �ֲ���ý in 2020, he taught pre-modern African, Iberian, and United States history at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX and worked as a professional horticulturalist in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Recent Publications:

“Christianity in Roman Africa, I: Communities and Religious Movements,” with Éric Fournier. In Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present, ed. by Andrew Barnes and Toyin Falola. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

“Review: Caroline Goodson, Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy,” Speculum, 98.4 (2023) .

“Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era.” In Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Michael Burrows and Michael J. Kelly. Gracchi Books, 2020.

“Teachers and Teaching,” with Sarah B. Lynch. In Cultural History of Education in the Middle Ages, ed. by Jo Ann H. Moran Cruz. Bloomsbury, 2020.

“Isidore’s early influence and dissemination (636-711).” In A Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. by Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood. Brill, 2020.

Forthcoming Publications:

“Alterity in the Anthologia Latina: Gender, Race, and the (Patriarchal) State in Vandal Carthage.” In The Vandal Renaissance, ed. by Richard Miles et al. Brill, forthcoming.

“Between Originality and Classical Tradition: the Ars Poetica of Eugenius II of Toledo,” in Transforming the Early Medieval World: Studies in Honour of Ian N. Wood, edited by N. Kıvılcım Yavuz and Richard Broome. Kısmet Press, forthcoming.

“Constructing Culture and Community in Post-Roman Carthage: Rereading the Anthologia Latina.” In A Companion to North Africa During the Vandal Century, ed. by Éric Fournier. Brill, forthcoming.

“Poetic, epistolary, and scribal culture.” In A Companion to Visigothic Iberia, ed. by Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, and Jamie Wood. Brill, forthcoming.

“Seeking female experience in the verse of Vandal-era Carthage.” In Women and Gender in Late Antiquity, ed. by Maijastina Kahlos and Éric Fournier. Brepols, forthcoming.

“Transforming the Late Antique Curriculum: Eugenius of Toledo and Educational Culture in Visigothic Iberia,” in Reading Eugenius of Toledo, ed. Graham Barrett and David Ungvary. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. Brepols, forthcoming.

I’m also working on a digital archiving project that explores the lives of immigrants who were medically incarcerated in New York in the nineteenth century. This project uses computational methods to understand the forces working on those immigrants, as well as the communities they were able to form within institutions.

I’m also interested in how the ‘internet age’ changes the way we interact with sources and with students – and in how the digital humanities shape what we do both as scholars and as teachers.

On BlueSky:

BIOGRAPHY

I’m a scholar of colonial Mexico and the early modern Catholic world. I’m currently finishing a book about two of the first international charities: rescuing Christian captives from North Africa and maintaining a Catholic presence in the Holy Land. During the seventeenth through early-nineteenth centuries, New Spain provided more funds for these projects than anywhere else in the world, and I want to know what people there knew about these projects and why they might have cared. I’m also starting a new book project that follows the travels of Irish Dominican William “Guillermo” O’Brien to Rome, New York City, Havana, and Mexico City in order to show how movement through the Catholic empire around the turn of the nineteenth century helped shape our modern world.

My publications include:

• : Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain, 1570-1800. Stanford University Press, 2012
• ��: Essays on Methods and Practice. Co-edited with Sylvia Sellers-García, University of New Mexico Press, 2017
• Other articles and book chapters can be found.
• I’m also a principal investigator for, a collaborative digital history project that presents inquisition cases as original documents, Spanish transcriptions, and English translations.

TEACHING

My teaching encompasses a wide range of Latin America’s history from Aztecs to the present day, including courses open to all students:

HIST/LALS 181 Creating Latin America: A broad overview of Latin America from indigenous societies before the arrival of Europeans through 21st-century globalization.

HIST 214/LALS 215 Revolutionary Americas, 1765-1830: Professor Joe Hall and I team teach this class that examines struggles for independence throughout the American hemisphere, from Boston to Buenos Aires.��

HIST/LALS 270 The Spanish Empire: From Madrid to Manila: A history of early globalization through the lens of the first global empire.

HIST 295 / LALS 295 / REL 295�� Montezuma’s Mexico: Aztecs and their World: Students learn about what life was like for people in the Aztec empire and beliefs about how the cosmos worked.����

HIST/LALS s27: The Mexican Revolution: Students debate issues from the first major social revolution of the 20th-century.����

��I also offer smaller seminar classes for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, including:

HIST 301Y / LALS 303 / REL 314 The Spanish Inquisition: Students use Inquisition cases—including for blasphemy, bigamy, and witchcraft—to better understand peoples and societies of Spain and New Spain.

HIST 301W/LALS301W: The Cold War in Latin America: Students research how revolutions, military coups and governments, wide-scale human rights violations, and civil wars shaped the region between the 1950s and the 1980s.

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