The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: Andalusian Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Muslim Families, Crafts, and Survival in Spain and Morocco 1492-1700
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Denise Spellberg
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About
Libby W. Nutting was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up in Washington, D.C. After graduating from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in 2002, she entered college at the University of Maryland in College Park to study history and Spanish language and literature. She studied abroad at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain and the Center for Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. She graduated from the University of Maryland magna cum laude with honors in history in 2006. After a year of working in the hotel industry and traveling, she enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin for graduate study in the Department of History in 2007. In 2010, she completed her master's report "Vivir por la seda: Morisca Women, Household Economies, and the Silk Industry in the Kingdom of Granada, 1400-1570," which won the Department of History's Perry Prize for best master's report. In 2011-2012, she will be working in the archives of Spain and Morocco researching her dissertation: "Andalusian Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Muslim Families, Crafts, and Survival in Spain and Morocco, 1492-1700."
