Olivia Remie Constable

Upon receiving her PhD, Remie Constable joined the faculty at Columbia University until 1995 when she accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame (UND).^[3] While at UND, Remie Constable published her first book titled Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900-1500^[4] which received the 1998 John Nicholas Brown Prize.^[5][6] The book explored Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with a specific focus on Muslim and Christian countries.^[4]

In 2003, Remie Constable published her third book titled Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages through the Cambridge University Press.^[7] As a result of her academic achievements, Remie Constable was appointed the Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute^[8] and elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2009.^[9] In the same year, she was one of two members from the United States elected to sit on the Bureau of Medieval Institutes Federation Board for a five-year term.^[10] Remie Constable also received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to study Medieval and Renaissance History in 2012.^[11]

Remie Constable died on April 16, 2014, as the result of cancer.^[12] Her final book To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity was published posthumously in 2018 through the University of Pennsylvania Press.^[13][14] In her honor, the Medieval Academy of America established the Olivia Remie Constable Award to fund a junior faculty member, adjunct, or unaffiliated scholar's research and travel.^[15]

• Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900-1500 (1994)
• Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (1997)
• Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2003)
• To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2018)