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The Work of
Reclaiming Identity
Books, music, and art that recover what history tried to erase.
About the Books
Hidden histories that official records buried — recovered through DNA, archives, and lived narrative.
My books explore the hidden histories that official records buried — Sephardic families who survived the Inquisition by erasing their Jewish identity, Romani and Calé communities who preserved culture under persecution, and southern Italian lineages shaped by centuries of migration and forced conversion.
Using DNA evidence, archival research, and collaboration with European genealogists, I trace the threads that connect modern descendants to ancestors who had to hide who they were to survive.
Each title combines rigorous documentation with personal narrative — because the story of who we are is both data and human experience.
These books are for you if you're…
- ✦Researching Converso or Crypto-Jewish roots
- ✦Exploring Romani or Calé heritage
- ✦Studying Mediterranean migration and forced conversion
- ✦Piecing together your own southern Italian family puzzle
- ✦Working at the intersection of DNA evidence and identity
Titles Available Now
The Library
Exiled Flavors
Food, Memory & the Sephardic Diaspora
How the cuisines of Southern Italy and the Iberian Peninsula carry the encoded memory of Jewish households — recipes as the last private act of cultural preservation under the Inquisition.
Beyond Stereotypes
Romani & Calé Heritage Reexamined
A rigorous reexamination of Romani and Calé communities, combining DNA evidence with oral tradition and archival records to challenge the narratives that have long misrepresented these peoples.
Italy Unveiled
Southern Italian Lineages & Hidden Migrations
Tracing the layered migrations, forced conversions, and concealed identities that shaped southern Italian families — and what genetic genealogy reveals about roots that church records obscured.
Echoes of the Morisco
Crypto-Muslim Survival in Post-Reconquista Iberia
The story of Muslim communities who remained on the Iberian Peninsula after the Reconquista, converting outwardly while preserving identity in secret — and how their descendants survive in modern DNA.
All titles are available directly through Lulu — print and digital editions.
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Songs from the
Ancestral Hearth
My music explores the same themes my books document — diaspora, survival, hidden identity, and the emotional weight of reclaiming erased heritage. Drawing on Sephardic, Morisco, Romani, and Tamil influences, these original songs blend historical memory with personal narrative, giving voice to the ancestors who couldn't speak their truth aloud.
Some tracks are meditative and reflective, others defiant and celebratory — all of them rooted in the stories of communities who preserved culture through sound when written records were destroyed or forbidden.
This is the soundtrack to genealogical discovery for anyone who feels the past in their bones before they find it in the archives.
Support the Work
This research takes years — and community.
If this work resonates with you, consider supporting it directly through Buy Me A Coffee or by picking up a book.