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News
New
jobs for History grad students:
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Caroline Dunn (PhD August 2007) has been appointed as a tenure-track
assistant professor of medieval history at Clemson University.
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Rebecca
Slitt (ABD) has been appointed an Honors College Teaching
Fellow at Hofstra University for 2007/08.
Recent
grants for History grad students:
٭ Liz
Hardman received an Alumni Dissertation Fellowship to complete
work on her PhD on “Justice and Jurisdiction in the Fifteenth-Century
Church Courts of Carpentras.”
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Morgan Kay has been awarded a Fordham Dissertation Expense
Grant for work on her doctoral dissertation on the manuscript
tradition of medieval Welsh prophecies.
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Liz Keohane received a Fordham GSAS Summer Fellowship for
archival research in England on ‘Defenders of the (Legislative
Branch) Faith: The Medieval Clergymen of Convocation.”
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Ken Mondshein
has received a Fulbright Fellowship to France to complete
research for his PhD dissertation,
"Ecclesiastical Hours and the Development of Secular
Timekeeping."
He was also awarded a Fordham Dissertation Expense Grant,
a GSAS Summer Fellowship, and a GSAS Travel Grant.
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Rebecca Slitt has received a Fordham/York Bursary Grant to
attend the French of England conference at the Centre for
Medieval Studies, University of York (UK) in July 2007.
Recent
and forthcoming publications by History grad students:
٭ Allison
Clark’s article on “Space of Reclusion: Notarial Records of
Urban Eremeticism in Medieval Siena,” is forthcoming in Rhetoric
of the Anchorhold: Space, Place and Body within the Discourses
of Enclosure, ed. Liz Herbert McAvoy (University of Wales
Press, 2008).
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Ken
Kurihara’s article, “The 'Red Knight' and Walewein: The Various
Aspects of Death in a Medieval Netherlandish Arthurian Romance,"
was published in the Bulletin of the Japan-Netherlands
Institute 31 (2006).
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Ken
Mondschein’s annotated translation of Camillo Agrippa’s Treatise
on the Science of Arms (1553) will be published by Italica
Press; he is also co-editing an anthology of academic essays
on fencing to be published in 2007.
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Rebecca Slitt’s article, “Justifying Cross-Cultural Friendship
in the First Crusade: Bohemond, Firuz, and the Fall of Antioch,"
has been accepted for publication in Viator and will
appear in the September 2007 issue.
Recent
and forthcoming talks by History grad students:
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Allison Clark gave a paper on “Spaces and Relations:
Female Hermits and their Neighbors in Siena,” at the Rennaisance
Society of America conference in March 2007.
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Joanne Filippone presented a paper on “The Price of Books
in England, 1300-1483,” at the Princeton University Center
for the Book and Media’s 2007 Graduate Student Conference.
She has also been invited to give the December 2007 gallery
talk at the Hispanic Society of America.
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Elizabeth Hardman gave a paper on “Criminous Clerks of Carpentras”
at the annual NYC Doctoral Colloquium in Medieval Studies
in April 2007.
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Ken
Mondschein (ABD) spoke on “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 in March 2007, and at the Massachusetts
Center for Renaissance Studies (Amherst, MA, April, 2007).
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Niki Singh spoke on “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.
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Rebecca Slitt spoke at the international conference
at Leeds, England in July 2007 on “Representations of Royal
Friendship in Anglo-Norman England.” |
