Congratulations to PhD students Reed O'Mara and Sam Truman for their splendid participation in the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting! Sam spoke in the session, co-organized by Reed, on alternative publication venues for graduate students.
Graduate Students
Huge congratulations to our fourth-year PhD student Sam Truman, who has been awarded the coveted Byzantine Studies Conference Graduate Student Paper prize for her paper, “‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’: The Execution of Judas Iscariot in Two Byzantine Marginal Psalters"! Macte hac gloria!
Congratulations to Reed who has been selected to participate in the 2022 Multidisciplinary Graduate Conference in Premodern Studies at the Newberry Library! Reed will present her paper, "The Language(s) of the Other: Pseudo-Hebrew & Yiddish in Fifteenth-Century German Broadsides," in the Redefining Community: Selfhood and Identity session. The hybrid...
The first meeting of the newly minted Association of Medieval Graduate Students (AMGS) will be held on Friday, October 8th from 5-6pm at the Freedman Center on the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library. At the meeting, we will talk about filling out leadership positions, the goals of the...
Throughout the Middle Ages, the pious Christian was constantly preoccupied with both the death of the earthly body and the subsequent survival of the soul. The fear of dying suddenly without repenting and confessing engendered images of death and the afterlife. Speakers in this session are encouraged to investigate late medieval representations of death as both an earthly and otherworldly matter. We welcome papers that explore the flourishing of these imageries especially in rural and marginal areas, which were extremely receptive to cultural exchanges, but which have not received proper scholarly investigation yet.
Organizer: Angelica Verduci, axv270@case.edu
Congratulations to Angie Verduci and Russell Green whose papers have been accepted to the Medieval Association of the Midwest’s Conference! The conference, Beneficence in the Medieval World, will be held on Zoom October 29-30, 2021. Angie's paper, entitled "Merciful Mary, Merciless Death: Late Medieval Depictions of Madonna della Misericordia...
Congratulations to Alex Kaczenski and Sam Truman on passing their doctoral exams with flying colors! Alex and Sam were joined by the alumna Mia Hafer and the honorary medievalist Delilah for a little celebration in Prof. Gertsman's back yard.
At long last, the CMA is opened for small special tours, and the first such tour was offered by Dr. Gerhard Lutz to CWRU medievalists, who convened today at the Treasures from Münster Cathedral. The extraordinary collection of reliquaries is on display through 8/14/2022 and will form an integral part of the next course in the Global Middle Ages series, which will be co-taught by Prof. Gertsman and Dr. McCormick next spring.
Join us for the many papers presented by the CWRU graduate students and alumni at the International Congress for Medieval Studies! Reed O’Mara will speak on May 10, Ben Levy and Julia LaPlaca (MA, 2020) on May 11, Aimee Caya on May 12, and Kristen Herdman (MA, 2016) on May 14. Click below to learn more about their papers or go directly to see the full program here.
Congratulations to Sam Truman whose paper “Defying Decay: The Ghostly Body and Identity in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame” was accepted into UC Santa Barbara’s 45th Annual Art History Graduate Student Association Symposium, “Haunting the Canon: The Super-phenomena in Art”! The conference will be held over Zoom...
Huge congratulations to Angie Verduci for receiving the ICMA Student Travel Grant, which will support research for her dissertation on Northern Italian “Triumph of Death” imagery. Only three such awards are annually given. This is the second year in a row that our medievalists receive this grant: last year, Aimee Caya was one of the winners!
Congratulations to Reed on receiving the Graduate Student Appreciation Award for the second year in a row! Reed’s nominator described her as a consummate student — active, engaged, kind, sharply intelligent, extremely personable — with a zeal for learning and discovery.