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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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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.

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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....

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Reed O'Mara joined Prof. Gertsman at the Ornamented Membranes conference in Cologne, the home of the bone-lined Golden Chamber as well as of the amazing Schnutgen and Wallraf-Richartz collections. They subsequently traveled to see some fantastic sites and objects: to Aachen, to explore the Palatine Chapel and the extraordinary Praymobil exhibition...

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If you have never stopped to examine this exquisitely wrought citrine cameo of Philip II in Gallery 118 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, there is now added reason to do so--it is the subject of Prof. Erin Benay's new article, published in Artibus et Historiae! Special thanks to...

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Google Arts and Culture Page Live

A Google Arts & Culture digital exhibition focusing on the Getty Museum's Department of Manuscripts's first acquisition to include a female author was recently made its premier. The piece was written by PhD candidate in medieval art and Mellon Fellow Reed O'Mara. The manuscript is from the late fifteenth/early sixteenth...

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Congratulations to Rebekkah Hart, a fourth-year PhD student in medieval art, who received the Schallek Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America! This extremely competitive year-long fellowship will underwrite her dissertation research in the UK. Rebekkah is now interning at the Getty's Sculpture & Decorative Arts curatorial department.

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Congratulations to Madalyn Fox, second-year MA student in contemporary art and museum studies, who presented her paper, “Slabs, Seams, and Survival: Rose B. Simpson’s Symbiotic Claywork,” at the 2025 University of Kansas History of Art Graduate Student Symposium. This year’s theme, “Symbiosis: Art and Ecologies in Global Perspectives,” brought together MA...

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