2018-09-19
- Marianne Kalinke, Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies and Scandinavian Studies, received Iceland’s highest honor — the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Falcon — from President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland at the International Saga Conference. She was honored for her work as an international authority on cultural and literary relations between Scandinavia and Europe in...
- 2018-03-16 - The Advisory Committee of the Program in Medieval Studies is composed by: Paula Carns (Library), Craig Koslovsky (History), Bonnie Mak (iSchool), Katherine Norcross (English), Carol Symes (History).
2017-09-11 - The Getty Foundation has awarded a major grant, as part of its Connecting Art Histories initiative, to The Cyprus Institute in support of a new research project: “Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities.” Directed by Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute) and D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...
2015-09-17 - Medieval Studies faculty member Martin Camargo has been honored with a Festschrift published by Brepols: Public Declamations: Essays on Medieval Rhetoric, Education, and Letters in Honour of Martin Camargo, ed. G. Donavin and D. Stodola (2015) contains fourteen essays by Camargo's colleagues in...
2015-08-03 - Bonnie Mak (Assoc. Prof., GSLIS) will be a visiting senior fellow at Penn State's new Center for Humanities and Information for the academic year 2015-16. While in residence at Penn State she will be working on a second book-length project, Confessions of a 21st-Century Memsahib, which examines the social processes and dynamics that underpin the manufacture of data.