We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of the $5,000 Schallek awards for the upcoming school year.
They, and their research topics, are:
- Madeline Fox (University of Michigan), “The Middle English Devotional Life of Magdalena von Freiburg”
- Olivia Caroline Geraci (University of Notre Dame), “Liturgical practices of medieval English women religious”
- Catherine Rose Introcaso (CUNY Graduate Center), “Annotation as Embodied Devotion in Late Medieval Mystical-Contemplative Manuscripts”
- Kamila Kaminska-Palarczyk (Yale University), “Gender and Sexuality Studies; Material History; Translation; and Middle English Literature”
- Karen Ward (University of Waterloo), “The Interpellating Mindscape of Medieval York: Objects, Times, and Spaces as Networked Cultural Nodes in the York Corpus Christi Cycle”
The Schallek awards support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). The $5,000 awards help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials.
Since 2004, the Medieval Academy of America has been administering the American Branch’s Schallek Fellowship and Awards program. Each year, one $40,000 fellowship and five $5,000 research awards are distributed to qualified candidates who are studying late medieval history with a focus on England, the British Isles, and/or their connections to the European continent. The annual application deadline for the fellowship is October 15th and February 15th for the research awards; to learn more and apply, go here.
“I heartily congratulate each of these students,” says American Branch chair Susan Troxell, “and I’m thrilled to see these awards going to five talented scholars who are advancing the study of the late medieval period through their research. The Schallek Fellowship and Awards program is one of the crown jewels of the American Branch, and we are very proud to support emerging medievalists.”
Since its inception, over $900,000 has been distributed to graduate students, and many have gone on to become independent scholars and professors of medieval history at prestigious universities.
