College of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman for receiving the 2023 Medieval Academy's Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies. This national award recognizes outstanding pedagogical achievement in teaching inspiring courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Gertsman was nominated by her students; we are grateful to them for their...

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Today's feature story in The Daily discusses the centrality of community engagement to the CWRU mission and links to the Fall/Winter issue of Think magazine, where our own MA candidate, Jess Xiao Long is profiled! Jess was the inaugural Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History and worked with LAND Studio to create the popular...

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Professor Maggie Popkin and PhD candidate Arielle Suskin (pictured here) presented papers at the recent 2023 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in New Orleans. Professor Popkin spoke about Roman gladiator knives and the objectification of gladiators in ancient Rome, while Arielle spoke about ancient Greek...

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Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Angie Verduci and MA student Marina Savchenkova who have been selected to participate in the 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies that will take place on March 16-18 2023 on Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Angie will present her paper entitled “Reading Love as Death...

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Third-year Ph.D. student Reed O'Mara was recently named a recipient of the CWRU Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavors Grant (GCAS GSSCE). Reed's project includes a trip to the United Kingdom where she will examine medieval manuscripts at the British Library and Bodleian...

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Congratulations to Marina Savchenkova, an MA student in medieval art, who was accepted to the research methods workshop, “Hands-On with Interactive Books,” which will take place at the Newberry Library in May! The workshop will provide hands-on experience with the study of books and other printed materials with movable...

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PhD student Reed O'Mara was recently named one of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Affiliates for Spring 2023! Reed will present her research on Hebrew word panels and erased images in the medieval biblical commentary known as the Munich Rashi, which was created in Germany in...

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How does 3D printing help scholars better understand a 700-year-old object? This medieval ivory triptych was recently 3D scanned in the #CMAConservation labs with colleagues from @cwruarthistorystudents and @cwruthinkbox. The ivory will star in Prof. Elina Gertsman's mixed reality project  on medieval spaces, in development at the CWRU's Interactive Commons,...

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