Request for Grant Extension

Current status: Four months into Fulbright grant
Request: One month of additional funding (Nov. 10 – Dec. 10)

Overview

Having focused much of my undergraduate studies on religious relations in al-Andalus, I applied for a Fulbright grant with the aim of expanding my knowledge to encompass modern dynamics between Catholics and Muslims in Spain and Morocco. Specifically, I proposed to examine the way in which both groups used religious rhetoric to frame their respective positions over Moroccan combat in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. It was to be a historical undertaking, grounded in archival research that I would primarily carry out in Tetouan, the old headquarters of the Spanish Protectorate.

Now in Morocco, my work has indeed taken me to Tetouan, where I have been living for the past four months since the end of my CLEA grant. The city has thrown several curveballs at me, however.