State Courts in the Governance of Jewish and Converso Atlantic Trade

Daniel Strum is a professor in the History Department at the University of São Paulo. He researches the judicial and reputational mechanisms that supported the expansion of markets in the trans-Atlantic trade during early modern times.

Strum received his PhD in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford and Yale universities, and was granted the Clarival do Prado Valladares Prize in Brazilian History, the Hanadiv Fellowship in European History, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Rector and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology doctoral fellowships.