Olivia Remie Constable

Acting 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 cultural 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). She served as director of graduate studies in the History Department from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed acting director of the Medieval Institute in 2008. In 2009, she was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. She is currently working on a new book project entitled Muslims in Medieval Europe, a project for which she has received funding from both the National Endowmnet for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Contact Information

715 Hesburgh Library
631-6604
Constable.1@nd.edu