Miriam Bodian is Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She works on the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions; post-Expulsion Sephardic Jewry; and Jews and the Reformation. She is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award in history, and the first annual Koret Jewish Book Award in history for her book Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam. She is also the author of Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World.