Brian Catlos Receives Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service from the Boulder Faculty Association
Dr. Brian Catlos was awarded a by the Boulder Faculty Association for his work on Mediterranean Studies and the 鶹ѰMediterranean Studies Group at 鶹ѰBoulder. This award honors excellence in teaching, service, and research to nominated 鶹ѰBoulder faculty members. Congratulations, Dr. Catlos, on this well-deserved recognition!
Additionally, Dr. Catlos hasbeen invited to give the at Northwestern University onApril 26, 2017.Sponsored by the History Department and theChabraja Center for Historical Studies, the lecture series honors the achievements of , a medieval historian who served as chairman of the Department of History from 1948 to 1966. Dr. Catlos’s talk is titled,“Foreigners in their Own Lands: The Muslims of Medieval Europe.”
On March 14, 2017, Dr. Catlos was invited to speak atthe University Womens’ Club Luncheon Lecture. His talk was titled"From Bob Dylan to Bill Gates: What Does Islam Have to do with ModernWestern Culture?" In this lecture, Dr. Catlos provided his historical perspective on nationalism and its application to our current national and international political climate with regard to the Middle East and Islam. He discussed how Islam has affected Western culture including rock and roll,the game of chess, and the digital revolution. Dr. Catlos also addressed how medieval Spain and theMediterranean world occupy acrucial place in the evolution of what we call“the West,” and why scholars are reconfiguring deeply rooted notions of whereand how western culture originated and developed.
Dr. Brian Catlosis a Professor of Religious Studies at CUBoulder and is one of the world’s leading figures in the study of Mediterranean history.Hiswork centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World. In 2014, he published,as well as,which won the, the most important award in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.