Olivia Remie Constable

Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute
Professor
Department of History

Degrees

B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Princeton

Research Profile

Constable's areas of interest concern the economic, social, and urban history of the medieval Mediterranean World, especially contacts between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in this region. Her publications include Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900-1500 (Cambridge University Press, 1994) which won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America; Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997); and Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2003). In 1992, before coming to the University of Notre Dame, Constable won the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Teaching Award for Junior Faculty at Columbia University. She has served as director of graduate studies in the History Department since 2000. In 2006-7, she will be working on a new book project entitled Muslims in Medieval Europe.

Contact Information

219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
631-7266
Constable.1@nd.edu