CREMS-affiliated professor Yonatan Glazer-Eytan (History) and Cloe Cavero de Carondelet (Spanish and Portuguese), were awarded the 2024 William Nelson Prize for their article “Infamy within Sight: Making and Unmaking Sambenitos in the Early Modern Iberian World.”
Presented by the Renaissance Society of America, the prize honors the “best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during the preceding calendar year,” according to the announcement.
Described in the award citation as “impressively ambitious in its geographical and chronological scope,” the article traces the rise and fall of the sambenito – an infamous emblem from the Inquisition – from its origins to its abolition. “Richly interdisciplinary in its methodology, weaving together iconographic and spatial analysis, political and religious history, [the] article virtuosically expands our understanding of the material culture of the Inquisition and exemplifies the value of scholarly collaboration in the humanities.”
