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Claire Gilbert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of History

Courses Taught

Graduate Seminar: Empire and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Hispanic World; Graduate Advanced Studies: Mediterranean History and the World; Graduate Advanced Studies: Early Modern Economies and Exchanges: Trust, Credit, and Reputation; Religious Conversion in an Age of Empire; Origins of the Modern World to 1500; History of the Language Sciences in Spain: Romans to Renaissance; Politics of Language; Origins of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2014
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
B.A., Stanford University, 2004

Research Interests

  • Late Medieval/Early Modern Spain and the Western Mediterranean
  • Language Contact and Multilingualism between Arabic and Romance languages
  • Social History of Language and the History of Linguistics
  • History of Translation

Publications and Media Placements

Books

In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Special Issues and Collective Volumes

Guest Editor, “An Age of Translation,” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 21/4 (2021) [Ó2023]


Peer Reviewed Articles

“Morisco Catechisms: Religious Incorporation and Differentiation in Early Modern Spain,” Religions 15/4 (2024): 1–23.

“An Age of Translation: Towards a Social History of Linguistic Agents in the Early Modern World,” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 21/4 (2021 [Ó2023]): 1–23.

"Gobernar por traducciĂłn: la memoria de los traductores estatales en la polĂ­tica árabe de los Austrias," TRANS. Revista de TraductologĂ­a 25 (2021): 71-92.

"Professions of Exchange: Circulating Experts and Artisans between Spanish Habsburg Lands and Saadien Morocco," Pedralbes: Revista d’historia Moderna 40 (2020): 123-141. 

“A Grammar of Conquest: The Spanish and Arabic Reorganization of Granada after 1492,” Past and Present, Volume 239/1 (2018), pp. 3–40.

 â€śThe Circulation of Foreign News and the Construction of Imperial Ideals: The Spanish Translators of Aḥmad al-Manṣūr,” Memoria y CivilizaciĂłn 18 (2015): 37-70.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Empire of Translation: Multilingual Administrative Dynasties in Habsburg Spain” in Iberian Babel: Multilingualism and Translation in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by Núria Silleras-Fernández and Michelle Hamilton, Brill, 2022, pp. 170-194.

"Arabic from the Margins: Hispano-Moroccan Translation between Classical Arabic and Humanist Traditions in Early Modern Spain," in Premodern Translation: Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations, Sonja Brentjes and Alexander Fidora (eds), Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, 133-164.

“Juegos de reputaciĂłn: honra, servicio y traducciĂłn en la MonarchĂ­a Hispánica,” in Homenaje a Araceli Guillaume-Alonso. La reputation: quĂŞte individuelle et aspiration collective dans l'Espagne des Habsbourg, Beatrice PĂ©rez (ed.), Presses de l’UniversitĂ© Paris-Sorbonne, 2018, pp. 475-498.

“Social Context, Ideology and Translation,” in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture, Sue-Ann Harding and Ovidi Carbonell-CortĂ©s (eds), 2018, pp. 225-242.

“Transmission, Translation, Legitimacy and Control: The Activities of a Multilingual Scribe in Morisco Granada,” in Multilingual and Multigraphic Manuscripts and Documents of East and West, Giuseppe Mandala and Inmaculada PĂ©rez Marin (eds.), Gorgias Press, 2018.

“The King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in Late Medieval Iberia,” in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Gen Liang and Jarbel RodrĂ­guez (eds), Ashgate, 2017, pp. 33-45.

Honors and Awards

  • Faculty Excellence Award, SLU Student Government Association 2023
  • NEH Summer Institute at Saint Louis University: “Global Geographies of Knowledge: Creating, Representing, and Commodifying Ideas Across Early Modern Places, 1400-1800” (co-Principle Investigator) 2022–2023
  • Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Grant 2022
  • Provost’s Research Fellowship (SLU) 2021
  • Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Association 2021
  • Beaumont Research Award in the Humanities (SLU) 2020
  • Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (SLU) Innovative Teaching Fellowship 2020
  • SLU Summer Research Award in the Humanities 2019
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2017-2018
  • SLU Student Government Association Faculty Excellence Award 2016
  • American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant 2015-2016
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Negotiating Identities," Barcelona 2015
  • SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2012-2013
  • Huntington Library Travel Grant for Research in the U.K., 2012
  • Spain-US Program for Cultural Cooperation (PCC) Research Grant, 2011
  • IIE Fulbright Research Grant, Madrid, Spain, 2010-2011
  • Critical Language Scholarship, Arabic, Muscat, Oman, 2010
  • Critical Language Scholarship, Arabic, Amman, Jordan, 2009
  • FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, Arabic, 2008-2009