Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos' book is being translated

Aug. 26, 2024

Professor Brian Catlos' book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (NYC: Basic, 2018) is being translated into Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and simplified Chinese in 2024.

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Brian Catlos听receives a听Guggenheim fellowship

July 8, 2024

Professor Brian Catlos received a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on his project An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, a culmination of his scholarship to date showing when, how and why members of these three faith communities鈥攚hich hail from Africa, the Middle East...

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Brian Catlos honored for promoting diversity and inclusion

Aug. 16, 2023

Brian Catlos recieved the 2023 ASCEND award, which recognizes faculty, staff, and students for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. Catlos was selected as Faculty Awardee for his work on Mediterranean Studies and with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group (since 2011) and the Mediterranean Seminar , both of which...

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Brian Catlos'听work featured in the New York Times

Nov. 22, 2022

Brian Catlos' work was featured in the New York Times November 3, 2022. You can find the article, "In Search of a Lost Spain," here .

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Brian A. Catlos publishes a new textbook and companion sourcebook

Sept. 12, 2022

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle . Learn more about these incredible resources here: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/the-sea-in-the-middle

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"鈥榃estern Culture鈥 and Where it Really Came From" and Upcoming Talk with Brian A. Catlos

Sept. 20, 2018

Brian A. Catlos , Professor of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group, recently published an article titled "鈥榃estern Culture鈥 and Where it Really Came From" on Hurst Publishers' website. In this article, he discusses immigration, how "no one 'owns' culture and it is never...

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Professor Brian Catlos' Latest Book Featured in The New Yorker

July 20, 2018

Professor Brian Catlos鈥檚 latest book, Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain was featured in The New Yorker鈥檚 鈥淏rief Notices鈥 (23 May issue). From The New Yorker Kingdoms of Faith , by Brian A. Catlos (Basic) . Rejecting histories of Islamic Spain that cast it as either a...

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Professor Brian Catlos Awarded 2018 Haskins Medal

Feb. 1, 2018

The 2018 Haskins Medal is awarded to Professor Brian Catlos for his monograph, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom , c. 1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Below is the full announcement from the Medieval Academy of America. Awarding the coveted Charles Homer Haskins Medal to Brian Catlos for his Muslims...

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Brian Catlos to speak about Jewish and Muslim relations in 11th-century Islamic Spain

Aug. 31, 2017

One night in 1066, Muslim inhabitants of the city of Granada in Spain rose up and slaughtered their Jewish neighbors in what has been described by some as the first pogrom on European soil. But peeling back the layers of history reveals a much more complex story, one that will...

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Brian Catlos Receives Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service from the 麻豆影院 Faculty Association

March 10, 2017

Dr. Brian Catlos was awarded a 2017 Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service by the 麻豆影院 Faculty Association for his work on Mediterranean Studies and the CU Mediterranean Studies Group at CU 麻豆影院. This award honors excellence in teaching, service, and research to nominated CU 麻豆影院 faculty members. Congratulations,...

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