College of Arts and Sciences

Listen here for the latest podcast to delve into Elina Gertsman's and Barbara Rosenwein's The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which explores material culture from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds through the artefacts in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The podcast was put together by the Medieval History division of the...

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Congratulations to Dr. Angie Verduci, who defended her fantastic dissertation on late medieval Triumph of Death murals with great enthusiasm and aplomb! Her committee members (Professor Elina Gertsman, Professor Elizabeth S. Bolman, Dr. Gerhard Lutz, and Professor David Rothenberg) were extremely impressed with the superb quality of this dissertation,...

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Congratulations to HILLS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nicolas Savard, on the publication of their article "Do We Get More Points if We Take Bigger Risks? Modeling Boundary-Setting in Devised Performance with Undergraduate Actors" in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance. The article is available open-access here: https://www.journalcbp.com/v2i1p61-86. Nicolas Savard is one of just three post-doctoral...

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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Benay, who has been named Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities by the Provost's Office. This inaugural honor recognizes Professor Benay's contributions to the field and to the university in working to achieve "greater social impact" through disciplinary ingenuity and community collaboration. As part of her appointment, Prof....

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Professor Gertsman was nominated for the teaching award, Professor Rager for the mentoring award, and Professor Bolman for both. Diekhoff Awards are given to faculty members who make exemplary contributions to the education and development of graduate students at Case Western Reserve University. Professor Rager won the teaching award...

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In their co-authored study "Transferring Jerusalem to Moscow: Maksim Grek's Letter and its Afterlife," The Russian Review (April 2023), Justin Willson and Ashley Morse bring to light a new primary source which explains why copies of Jerusalem's monuments were rare in the East Slavic world. This article will be published open access...

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Please join us for Olszewski lecture on Wednesday, March 29, at 5 pm! The talk entitled "Monumental Absence: Augusta Savage’s Unbuilt Monuments" will be given by Dr. Tess Korobkin (University of Maryland, College Park). Between 1931 and 1943, Harlem-based sculptor Augusta Savage proposed four monuments to honor Black American lives, but...

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