He is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean: Captivity, Commerce, and Communication.” Hershenzon has published articles in the Past and Present, Journal of Early Modern History, African Economic History, Philological Encounters, and in edited volumes. He focuses on the history of early modern Spain and the Mediterranean, the relations between the Spanish Monarchy and North Africa, slavery and captivity, Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultural intermediaries, conversion, writing and its uses, and Mediterranean material culture. He held fellowships from the SSRC, the Mellon Foundation, the Humanities Institutes at the University of Michigan and at the University Connecticut, and the European University Institute in Florence.