Tag: Schallek Fellowship

2026 Schallek Awards Announced

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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

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2026 Schallek Fellow is Announced

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  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

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2025 Schallek Fellow Announced

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Jack McCart

  We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Schallek Fellowship is Jack McCart of the University of Toronto. His research topic “The Material Cultures of Memory: Death, Patronage, and Self-Presentation in Later-Medieval London,” explores the types of self-presentation that were embedded in Londoners’ activities as patrons, donors, and benefactors. It is interested in questions of how medieval Londoners defined themselves as patrons and sought to shape the

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