Mayte Green-Mercado

Teaching the refugee experience with graphic texts and video games

These narratives, read and experienced alongside historical texts, can deepen student understanding of today’s refugees fleeing war, violence, conflict, and persecution.

Race in the premodern world

In this class, Mayte Green-Mercado guides students through premodern origins of the construction of race and the consequences it carries today.

Mediterranean crossings

Mayte Green-Mercado's syllabus demonstrates the history of the Mediterranean as a unique hub of geographic and cultural exchange.

Reframing the refugee narrative

Mayte Green-Mercado teaches her students to interrogate the histories of global migration and displacement to study the narratives of refugees in our present moment.

Race-making and the preservation of power

The history of racial and religious caste in Spain echoes through contemporary far-right political parties