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Recent Grants, Fellowships and Prizes
2009-10
Morgan Kay: the Schalleck Dissertation award from the Medieval Academy of America and the North American Branch of the Richard III Library, for research at the National Library of Wales. She was also awarded the Founders Prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the 2008 joint meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
and Medieval Association of the Pacific.
Ryan Keating, The George M. Nethken Memorial Fellowship in Civil War Studies at Shepherd University for June and July, 2009. Also the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Grant-in-aid for research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library, summer 2009.
Elizabeth Keohane: GSAS Summer Fellowship for work on computer database of members of Convocation in medieval England.
Esther Liberman-Cuenca: GSAS Travel Grant to give a paper at the annual medieval conference at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, July 2009.
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: GSAS Research Fellowship for 2009/10 to do research for her PhD thesis on “Between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages: The Struggle for Ravenna in the Eighth Century.” She was also accepted into The Howard Comfort, FAAR'29, Summer Program in Roman Pottery at the American Academy of Rome.
Nathan Melson: GSAS Summer Fellowship for research in the medieval archives of Marseille.
Johnathan Pettinato: Sholarship to attend the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, Summer 2009.
Samantha Sagui: GSAS Summer Fellowship for research at the Norfolk Record Office and Public Record Office in England for her project on the development of policing functions in medieval English towns.
Kristin Uscinski: GSAS Senior Teaching Fellowship for 2009/10.
2008-09
Christopher Beck: a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French Republic for 2008/09 for his project on "Private War for Public Interests: Letter of Marque and State Formation in Medieval Marseille." He has also received the Frederic Lane Medieval Academy Dissertation Grant, a Fordham GSAS Summer Fellowship, and a GSAS Research Fellowship for 2008/09 for this project, which entails spending a year in the archives of Marseille. He also turned down a Fulbright Fellowship to accept the Bourse Chateaubriand.
Heidi Febert: a Fordham GSAS Summer Fellowship to complete research and writing for an article based on her MA thesis, "Buckled, Wired and Pinned: The Mass Consumption of Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England."
Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge: a grant for the 2008 Mellon Summer Institute in Tudor-Stuart Paleography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, June-July 2008.
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: a Senior Teaching Fellowship for 2008/09 and a Fordham GSAS Summer Fellowship for preliminary research in Italy on her thesis, “Between the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages: The Struggle for Ravenna in the Eighth Century.”
Megan E. Monahan: a Fordham GSAS Research Travel Grant for travel to Hawaii in Summer 2009 to conduct research on Hawaiian women's roles in the tourist industry at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Ken Mondschein: a Fordham Alumni Dissertation Fellowship for the 2008/09 academic year to complete his PhD thesis on “A Matter of Time: Church, Civic Administration and the Idea of the Hour in Medieval France.”
Joanne Filippone Overty: the Book History Graduate Student Essay Prize for "The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483," Book History 11 (2008).
Johnathan Pettinato: a Grant-in-Aid from the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. (Spring 2008) for “The Jesuit Enterprises” seminar under the direction of John W. O’Malley, S.J. While at the Folger, Johnathan focused on Jesuit political theory and its intersection with the rhetoric of empire and Ignatian cura personalis in colonial Paraguay.
Samantha Sagui: the Joseph F. O’Callaghan Essay Prize in Medieval Studies for her M.A. thesis, “Crime and Conviviality: The Social Space of Urban Drinking Houses in Medieval England.” She also won the History Department Loomie Prize in 2007 for this essay.
2007-08
Elizabeth Hardman: a Fordham GSAS Alumni Dissertation Fellowship for work on her PhD thesis: “Justice, Jurisdiction, and Choice: The Church Courts of Carpentras in the 15th Century.”
Morgan Kay: a Fordham GSAS Travel Grant for research on her PhD thesis: “The Manuscript Context of Medieval Welsh Prophecies.”
Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge: a Fordham GSAS Summer Fellowship for preliminary research in the Lincolnshire (UK) archives for a project on the clergy of Convocation.
Ken Mondschein: a Fulbright Fellowship to France to complete research on his PhD thesis,
“A Matter of Time: Church, Civic Administration and the Idea of the Hour in Medieval France.”
Rebecca Slitt: Fordham/York Exchange Bursary for the French of England conference at the University of York, July 2007.
Recent Publications
Allison Clark: Spaces of Reclusion: Notarial Records of Urban Eremiticism in Medieval Siena, in Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Place, Space and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure, edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy (University of Wales Press, 2007); and “Charitable Bequests in Siena, 1300-25,” in The Medieval Town: A Reader, ed. M. Kowaleski (Broadview Press, 2006).
Joanne Filippone Overty: The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483, Book History 11 (2008): 116-35.
Ken Kurihara: The 'Red Knight' and Walewein: The Various Aspects of Death in a Medieval Netherlandish Arthurian Romance, Bulletin of the Japan-Netherlands Institute 31 (2006).
Esther Liberman-Cuenca: Devil-Worship, Regicide, and Commerce: The Professional Necromancer in Late Medieval England, Hindsight Graduate History Journal, 2 (2008).
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: “Emma,” “Edmund,” and “St. Edward,” in The Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia, ed. Chris Snyder. Greenwood Publishing, 2008.
Ken Mondschein: Editor and translator, Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise by Camillo Agrippa. New York: Italica Press, 2009. Future-Spectives. Sixteenth Century Society Journal 40:1 (2009): “Meme,” and “Love, Western Notions of,” (with Vern Bullough) in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Gale Group, Inc., 2004); Surpassing the Love of Women: Male Homosexuality in the Pre-Modern World, Renaissance 9:6 (2004); also book reviews for Renaissance (2004-2006) on Norman F. Cantor, The Last Knight; David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284; Chaira Frugoni, A Day in a Medieval City; Andre Jotischky and Caroline Hull, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World; Alastair Dunn, The Peasants’ Revolt; and Stephen Turnbull, The Art of Renaissance Warfare. .
Niki Singh: Mass Appeal: The Hijacking of Dime Novel Medium to Counter U.S. Imperial Ideology in Cuba and the Philippines, Theory in Action 1:2 (2008): 40-65.
Jennifer Speed: Emotion and Negotiation during the Reign of Jaume I, in Negociar en la Edad media/Négocier au Moyen Age, ed. Maria Teresa Ferrer Mallol et al. (Barcelona, 2005); Women, Family Relations, and Inheritance in Aragon, in The Medieval Town: A Reader, ed. M. Kowaleski (Broadview Press, 2006).
Papers and Presentations
2009
Ken Mondshein: organizer of two sessions for the Association for Historical Fencing : I. “Can These Bones Come to Life?: Insights from Reconstruction, Reenactment, and Re-creation;” II. “Chasing the Minute Hand: Transformations of Medieval Uses of and Thought on Time” for the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2009.
Christina Bruno: "The Virtue of Good Taste: The Legal Interpretation of Sumptuary Statutes in 15th-Century Italy" at the 44th International Conference on Medieval Studies at the University of Michigan (Kalamazoo), May 9, 2009.
Michael Conforti: “The Socratic Method as a Teaching Strategy in the College Classroom” at The Excellence in Teaching Colloquium on Classroom Practice. College of Mount Saint Vincent. Riverdale. New York, January 15, 2009; “Searching for the Self in Strange Places: Privacy and the English Common Law in the 1760s, ” at the Thirteenth Annual James A. Barnes Club Conference in History, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 21, 2009.
Michael Conforti: “Cura Personalis in the University Setting: One Class at a Time.” Delivered at the Graduate Seminar in Jesuit Pedagogy, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, April 30, 2009.
Conor Duffy: "Theorizing the Seance: Modernity and Scientific Authority in Late Victorian Britain" at The Pennsylvania State University, Department of History and Religious Studies Conference: “Death and Dying: Human Experiences of the End of Life,” October 25, 2008.
Elizabeth Hardman: “De Verbis ad Verberis (From Words to Wounds): Criminous Clerics and Their Narrative Strategies in the Church Courts of Carpentras.” at the 44th Annual Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2009.
Elizabeth Keohane: “The Members of the Reformation Convocation: the Clergymen behind the Disputes) at "Re-thinking Politics in 16th Century England," University of Warwick (UK), April 2009;
John Lash: “Conciliation, Culture and Expansion in Tudor Ireland,” at the American Conference on Irish Studies, National University of Ireland Galway, June 10-13, 2009; “The King’s “Obedient” Subjects,” at “Rethinking Politics in Sixteenth Century England,” University of Warwick, England, April 15-17, 2009.
Esther Liberman-Cuenca: and Dev Bose presented a paper entitled “Buffy, Angel, and Complications of the Soul: Observations on Lineage, Colonial Identity, and Gender Roles,” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in New Orleans, April, 2009.
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: “Between East and West: King Aistulf’s conquest of Ravenna and vision of Lombard kingship, “ at the 2nd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece, April 2009; “Advantage or Disadvantage? Ravenna’s religious history and Lombard state building in the eighth century,” at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2009.
Kenneth Mondschein: “The Paris Manuscript of Fiore dei Liberi.” Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Fifth Annual Conference on Swordsmanship, Amherst, MA, April 25, 2009; “Words and Swords: The Maître d’Escrime and the Creation of Bourgeois Masculinity,” at Unbecoming Masters, NYU Department of French graduate conference, New York, NY, March 27–28, 2009.
Niki Singh: "Dying to live, Autodestruction as a Means of Resistance in Not Either an Experimental Doll, Correspondences by Three South African Women" at Stony Brook University's Women and Gender Studies Conference, April 18, 2009; "French Experience and Exchange in the West Indies: The Life and Time of Martinique Sugar Planter, Pierre Dessalles" at 35 annual French Colonial Historical Society Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 28-30, 2009.
2008
Michael Conforti: “Constructing Knowledge for Visual Learners: Images and the Industrial Revolution” at the Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, College of Mount Saint Vincent, January 2008; “Lord Mansfield, the Imperial Constitution and Campbell v. Hall,” at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, March 2008.
Heidi Febert: "Adorning All: Women and Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England" at Plymouth State University's (NH) Medieval and Renaissance Forum, April, 2008.
Elizabeth Hardman: “Networks of Violence and Debt: Christians and Jews in the Diocese of Carpentras in the Fifteenth Century,” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Rochelle Haughton: History 'Presenter' for the web-based interactive educational project titled “History Detectives Lab” (HD Lab), a prototype project with Lion Television and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, January-April 2008. She is also on an advisory panel and responded to history-related questions from about 150 students in participating schools.
Morgan Kay: “Prophecy and National Identity in Medieval Wales and Britain,” at the annual conference of the Medieval Academy of America, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, April 2008. She is also continuing work as Assistant Editor of the Online Medieval Sources Bibliography.
Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge: “Defenders (of the Legislative Branch) of the Faith: The Medieval Clergymen of Convocation,” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Kirsti Norris, Kirsti: “Surviving the Stake: Routine Procedure in Lollard Prosecution,” at the Northeastern Conference for British Studies at Boston College, November, 2008.
John Lash: “A Crisis of Authority: the Geraldine League and “Surrender and Regrant” in Mid-Tudor Ireland,” New England Conference for British Studies, Boston College November 14-15, 2008; “The Origins of “Surrender and Regrant” in the MacGillapatrick Lordship,” Mid-Atlantic chapter of the American Conference for Irish Studies, LaGuardia Community College, New York, October 11, 2008.
Esther Liberman-Cuenca: “Speech, Fama, and Procedure in the Lower Ecclesiastical Courts of Late Medieval England,” at the North East Conference of British Studies, Boston College, November 2008.
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: "The Coinage of Aistulf: An Imperial Program?" at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Nathan Melson: “The Economy of Veneration: Bequests to Parochial Saints' Cults in Late Medieval Kent and Somerset,” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Melson, Nathan: “Commanding Spirits: Comparative Textual Analysis of Medieval Ritual Exorcism and Necromantic Invocation” at “The Devil in Society in the Pre-modern World Conference,” held at the University of Toronto, October, 2008..
Ken Mondschein: organizer of two sessions on: "Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re-creation” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Samantha Sagui: "The English Drinking House: An Analysis of Medieval Drinking Spaces" to the Coming Together: Taverns, Leisure, and Public Gathering in the Middle Ages: 15th Annual Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies, Princeton University, March 2008; “To Have and to Hold: Crisis and Compromise in Marriage Disputes in the Lower Ecclesiastical Courts of Late Medieval England,” at the North East Conference of British Studies, Boston College, November 2008.
Kirsti Norris: “Surviving the Stake: Routine Procedure in Lollard Prosecution” at the North East Conference of British Studies, Boston College, November 2008.
2007
Alison Clark: "Spaces and Relations: Female Hermits and Their Neighbors in Siena," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Miami, March 2007.
Joanne Filippone Overty: “The Price of Books in England, 1300-1483,” at the Princeton University Center for the Book and Media’s Graduate Student Conference, January 2007. She also gave a gallery talk at the Hispanic Society of America.
Elizabeth Hardman: “Criminous Clerks of Carpentras,” at the NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Consortium’s annual Graduate Student Colloquium, SUNY Stony-Brook, April 2007.
Esther Liberman-Cuenca: “Magic, Commerce, and Regicide: The Professional Sorcerer in Late Medieval England,” at the Medievalism Transformed Conference, University of Wales Bangor, June 2007.
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: “The Yoke of Christianity: Changing Attitudes towards the Christianization of Pagans from Slavia to the Baltic,” at the 42nd International Congress of Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2007.
Ken Mondschein: “The Science of the Sword: Camillo Agrippa’s Trattato di Scienza d’Arme and the Intellectual Underpinnings of the Scientific Revolution, “ at the Renaissance Society of America conference, March 2007, and at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, April 2007. Organizer and presider of session: “Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Recreation.,” at the 42nd International Congress of Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2007.
Niki Singh: “Mass Appeal: The Highjacking of Dime Novel Medium to Counter U.S. Imperial Ideology in Cuba and the Philippines,” at the Stony Brook University conference on Dialogue and Borders: Rethinking Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007.
Rebecca Slitt: “Representations of Royal Friendship in Anglo-Norman England,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2007.
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