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Congratulations to Sam Truman, who has been awarded both the Samuel H. Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowship and the Chateaubriand Fellowship!
Laura and Cecily are honored and elated to be the recipients of 2023 travel grants. Laura was awarded a Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Grant, and Cecily was awarded one of this year’s Student Research Grants from the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).
Justin Willson, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History Leadership, received a contract for Volume 4 in the series “Sources in Byzantine Art History,” entitled The Visual Culture of Late Byzantium and the Early Modern Orthodox World (c.1350-c.1669) (Cambridge University Press, 2028).
Congratulations to Dr. Elina Gertsman, professor of medieval art and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, on winning the 2023 Otto Gründler prize for The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books. Given annually, the Otto Gründler Book Prize recognizes a monograph on a medieval subject that the selection committee determines has made an outstanding contribution to the field. Authors from any country are eligible, and nominations are accepted from readers and publishers. This is not the first honor for The Absent Image, which received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from College Art Association in 2022.
The medieval art program was featured in the headline news in the Daily! The article spotlights the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) and the Immersive Realms app. You can read it here.
https://thedaily.case.edu/microsoft-hololens-puts-medieval-objects-into-the-hands-of-student-researchers/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thedaily_research
From May 1 to May 4, Simona Di Nepi, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, visited Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) as the first Short-Term Mellon Visiting Fellow. Dr. Di Nepi participated in an archival workshop at the Western Reserve Historical...
Congratulations to Reed O'Mara who passed her doctoral exam with flying colors! The committee was extremely impressed with Reed's command of both subjects -- medieval Hebrew manuscripts and German Gothic sculpture -- and not at all surprised by her ability to formulate a sophisticated and compelling argument for the...
Congratulations to Dr. Maggie Bell and Alex Kaczenski (PhD candidate CWRU History of Art), on the opening of the exhibition All Consuming: Art and the Essence of Food at the Norton Simon Museum! The show explores how artists responded to and shaped food cultures in Europe from 1500 to 1900. Explore a bite-sized...
Congratulations to undergraduate Art History major Carissa Aldana who has been named a Smithsonian Conservation Intern for Broadening Access in conjunction with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. We are so proud of our undergraduate majors!
On April 26, Claudia Brittenham (University of Chicago) will deliver the annual Harvey Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Humanities, titled "Seeing Unseen Art in Ancient Mesoamerica."
Many works of Mesoamerican sculpture were difficult to see in their original contexts. For over three thousand years, from the earliest moments...