Congratulations to Zoe Appleby, second-year PhD student in medieval and Byzantine art, whose paper, “Materials in Dialogue with an Aqueous Landscape: Marble, Glass, and Shell in San Vitale, Ravenna,” won the 2024 Vagantes Paper Prize! Her work was praised by the selection committee for its complexity, depth, originality, and overall contribution to the field of Medieval Studies. Vagantes is a premier conference that gathers junior scholars working in all areas of medieval studies; this year, it was held at Northwestern University. At Vagantes, Zoe was joined by Laura Rybicki wo presented her paper “Darkened Devotion: Materiality and Meaning in the Morgan Libary’s Black Hours.”