Laura Shannon Prize Winner
Laura Shannon Prize Winner
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
by Eric Calderwood
2020 Silver Medalist in Humanities
Jury Statement (Silver Medal)
We have many accounts of “moorish” influences in Spain, but almost none of the lingering shadow of the Spanish presence in Morocco. Colonial al-Andalus offers an original, deeply researched, and compelling narrative of a relationship of increasing international importance. With exemplary analyses of Spanish- and Arabic-language texts that demonstrate the pervasiveness of the “myth” of Andalusia in both Spain and Morocco in modernity, Calderwood’s work is well documented, vivid in style, and timely.
Final Jury
Dudley Andrew
R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature
Yale University
JoAnn DellaNeva
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and
Academic Director of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway
University of Notre Dame
Lydia Goehr
Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
Michael Jennings
Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of German
Princeton University
Declan Kiberd
Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies
University of Notre Dame