Rebekkah Hart of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio is this year’s recipient of the $40,000 Fellowship. The fellowship will support Rebekkah’s research project, “The Kiss of Peace: Materialities and Afterlives of Liturgical Paxes, or ‘Kissing Images,’ in Late Medieval England (c. 1250-1550).” While the “Kiss of Peace” was a common liturgical ritual in the Christian mass from at least the second century, this ritual became materially embodied
In cooperation with the Medieval Academy of America, the American Branch is pleased to announce the 2024 winners of our Schallek Awards. Every year, we offer five $2,000 awards to help defray research expenses for graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). This year’s winners and their wonderful research topics are: Jordan K. Skinner – Princeton Jordan is a doctoral candidate
Morgan McMinn, West Virginia University The American Branch is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Schallek Fellowship, Morgan McMinn of West Virginia University. Morgan attended West Virginia University as an undergraduate where she majored in history and is currently studying for her Ph.D. As a freshman, she took an upper-level history course with Dr. Kate Staples on late medieval England. Inspired by Dr. Staples’s enthusiasm and the
Amy Juarez, University of California Riverside The American Branch is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2023 Schallek Fellowship is Amy Juarez, a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of California-Riverside. The $30,000 fellowship will help support Amy with writing her dissertation next year. Amy writes: My dissertation, entitled “The Poetics of Embodied Architecture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” takes as its central concern how
