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Global Medieval Studies Program Launched!

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new program in Global Medieval Studies! Administered through the Department of Art History and Art in collaboration with Classics, English, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Music departments, the Graduate Certificate in Global Medieval Studies will offer students the opportunity to pursue rigorous interdisciplinary study of the medieval world. The program, free for degree-seeking graduate students in any of the participating departments, is geared towards those who wish to pursue the certificate as a complement to their primary field of study. The program leverages established partnerships with the Cleveland Museum of Art and existing performance ensembles. Each year, the Department of Art History and Art sponsors lectures by distinguished scholars and curators of medieval and Byzantine art, while the Graduate Association for Medieval Studies (GAMS) organizes multiple events every semester. The program is further enriched by robust colloquia hosted by English and Music departments, which regularly bring prominent medievalists to campus. For questions, please contact Prof. Elina Gertsman, the program’s director, or visit our page. Click below for a peek at this semester’s events!

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We are delighted to share that doctoral candidate Jillian Kruse has accepted a position as Catalogue Raisonné Researcher at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute! Based in New York City, the WPI is a non-profit foundation working in collaboration with the Fonds WPI in Paris and dedicated to publishing digital catalogues...

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Rachel Sweeney, third-year PhD student in medieval art, was this year's recipient of the Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies from the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies. Her paper, "The Faddan More Psalter: Tangible Connections Between the Insular World and Byzantium," was originally written...

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The Department of Art History and Art is delighted to announce the publication of Animalities and Humanities in Medieval Jewish Art, a special issue of Ars Judaica co-edited by Prof. Elina Gertsman. In addition to a broad range of articles, the volume features a roundtable discussion that explores historical and ecological spectra of...

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Join us on May 27 for Reed O'Mara's lecture on the use of pseudo-Hebrew in late medieval prints! The talk is part of the lecture series organized by the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Reed, a doctoral candidate in medieval art and a Mellon Fellow, is...

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Congratulations to all the speakers, chairs, and organizers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies! Case Western Reserve--its faculty, its affiliates, its students, and its alumni--were amply represented this year. Thank you, as always, for making us proud, and for paving the way for the annual meeting of the...

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Congratulations to Clara Pinchbeck! She’ll be at the Getty for the next two years.

PhD candidate Clara Pinchbeck has accepted a two-year Research Assistant position at the Getty Research Institute. Working under Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Clara will focus on long-term digital projects within a division that encompasses the Getty Provenance Index, the Getty Vocabulary Program, and...

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Reed O'Mara, a doctoral candidate in medieval art, is the featured researcher of the week on the Medieval Jewish Studies Now! --- a news blog dedicated to providing current information on the developing state of medieval Jewish studies research. We seek to update our readers on Jewish studies research spanning the...

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MAA 2026 — A CWRU Coup!

The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America was quite the convivium for current and past Case Western Reserve University medievalists! Hosted by the Five College Consortium, the conference took place on the campuses of Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst on March 19-21, 2026. Dominique...

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PhD candidate Anthony Huffman has been appointed the sixth annual Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History! Tony will complete his fellowship at Zygote Press—Cleveland’s oldest collaborative printmaking studio and gallery. Working in their newly expanded gallery spaces, Tony will collaborate with Ohio artists and Zygote staff on projects related...

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Congratulations to Sarah Frisbie, a PhD student in medieval art, who was accepted into the Dumbarton Oaks / Hill Museum Manuscript Library Summer School, where she will be studying the Ge'ez language!  

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