Karoline Kaja CookOn October 23, she presented a paper entitled “Constructing ‘Spanishness’ through Empire: Representations of Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Histories” at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in Vancouver, BC.

Her article, “De los Prohibidos: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America,” was published in Crescent Over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino U.S.A., edited by María del Mar Logroño Narbona, Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto, and John Tofik Karam (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015): 25-45.

And last but not least her book, Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America (University of Pennsylvania Press) is scheduled to appear in May 2016. It is now available for pre-order on Amazon.