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.
Graduate Students
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! Among them are Reed O’Mara, Ben Levy, and Julia LaPlaca (MA, 2020), speaking about medieval Hebrew manuscripts, and Kristen Herdman (MA, 2016) presenting on Medingen Prayer Books. 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.
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.
Samantha Truman, second-year PhD student in medieval art, delivered (by Zoom!) a fantastic paper at the University of Oregon graduate student symposium, "Lives/ Afterlives/ Futures: Engagements with the Archive." Graduate students and Professor Gertsman, who virtually attended the talk, were extremely impressed not only with the paper itself but...
On Saturday, February 23, Nikki DeLuca, a PhD student in medieval art, presented her paper “Images of Truth and Magic in Arthurian Romance” at the Popular Culture and the Deep Past conference, “Fairies and the Fantastic,” at The Ohio State University. While there, she also learned about the history...
Our glorious PhD students at the hallowed International Congress for Medieval Studies — with Prof. Gertsman’s award-winning book and her fabulous Penn State editor, Ellie Goodman.
Kylie Fisher, doctoral student in early modern Italian art, has been awarded an Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship! This fellowship will enable Kylie to travel to London this summer to conduct an in-depth study of the British Museum’s exceptional holdings of sixteenth-century Italian prints as part of her dissertation research.