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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 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...

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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!

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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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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...

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