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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!
Congratulations to Alli Boroff and Rachel Sweeney who each received the 2026 Flora Stone Mather Center for Women Research and Professional Development Grant! The grant will support Rachel's Rachel's dissertation project, “Anseo tá Arrachtaigh: The Christian Function of Monstrous and Grotesque Imagery in Pictland and Ireland, c. 700-1200,” and...
Congratulations to Professor Betsy Bolman and Professor Popkin on their nominations for the John S. Diekhoff Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Professor Bolman has also been named a finalist for the award!
Congratulations to Rachel Sweeney on receiving the a Postgraduate/Early Career Research Grant from the Scottish Society for Northern Study! The grant will help cover Rachel's fieldwork on monumental sculpture and architecture of Irish churches and monastic sites.
Please join me in congratulating Susana Montañés-Lleras, whose dissertation, "The Sleeping Princess and the Creeping Briar: Book Illustration, Pictorial Language, and the Rhetoric of Fantasy" was unanimously and enthusiastically approved by her committee today! On behalf of my fellow committee members, Dr. Henry Adams, Dr. Britany Salsbury, and Dr....
Prof. Benay and Dr. Britany Salsbury--Curator of Prints and Drawings at the CMA--have won BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from the International Fine Prints and Drawings Foundation for their exhibition catalogue Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community (Yale, 2025). The IFPDA Book Award "highlights and promotes published books, articles, or catalogues on fine...
Now Pitching! Congratulations to Prof. Benay and Dr. Ken Schneck, executive director of the Buckeye Flame, Ohio's only LGBTQ+ Newsroom, on the success of their pitch at Accelerate! They WON the Arts & Culture category!! Hosted by the Cleveland Leadership Center, Accelerate is an annual competition that funds innovative, non-profit...
Congratulations to Prof. Gertsman, who received the 2026 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College Art Association (CAA)! Recipients are evaluated on several criteria, including Inspiration to a broad range of students who pursue humanities studies; rigorous intellectual standards; contributions to the advancement of knowledge and methodology...