Advisor: Professor Dauverd • Augusto Rocha is a PhD student in the History Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR). His first Master's degree, with an emphasis on History, Power, and Culture, was obtained from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, while his second Master's degree in Political History was earned at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, both in Brazil. His research interests include Early Modern European History, with a focus on Spanish history and the construction of its history, as well as the uses and misuses of the Muslim and Jewish past. Augusto's dissertation intends to address issues related to identity in the Iberian Peninsula and among the conversos population following the 1492 Edict of Expulsion.