Brian Catlos

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.   

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

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

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.

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

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group, recently published an article titled "‘Western Culture’ and Where it Really Came From" on Hurst 

Professor Brian Catlos’s latest book, Kingdoms of Faith. A New History of Islamic Spain was featured in The New Yorker’s “Brief Notices” (23 May issue). From The New Yorker Kingdoms of

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

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

Dr. Brian Catlos was awarded a 2017 Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service by the Boulder Faculty Association for his work on Mediterranean Studies and the CU Mediterranean Studies Group at CU Boulder. This award