Dr. Alexandra Montero Peters is a historian of the medieval Mediterranean world, specifically the intellectual exchange between Iberia, North Africa, and the Near East. She researches the porousness of medieval boundaries, particularly how textual and intellectual traditions traversed religious, cultural, and racial boundaries in a period that has long been mischaracterized as insular and stagnant. Working primarily with Arabic and Castilian manuscripts from the multi-confessional, multilingual, and multicultural world of medieval Iberia, Dr. Peters explore how such costly objects, which were often diplomatic gifts or part of royal patrimony, reveal a wider web of intellectual exchange between Christian and Islamic milieus. Manuscripts that synthesize and combine information from both of these communities record the crossroads—both literal and literary—of these overlapping worlds. 

She received her Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of Chicago, where she also received her B.A. and M.A. Prior to Texas State University, she taught at Bowdoin College.