Category: News and Announcements

Short news items relevant to the Institute and current or past fellows including award announcements, calls for papers, new fellowship offerings, new publications, and changes at the IRH.

Upcoming Workshop with Amanda Shubert

The Virtual Image: A Media Archaeology Workshop

Book by Justine Walden now published

The Sacred and the Secular in Renaissance Florence

Marla A. Ramírez wins numerous book awards

IRH congratulates Marla on these impressive achievements.

Book by Emily G. Shanahan Now Forthcoming

Penelope and Her Maids

Book by Laura McClure Now Published

Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus

Book by James Pilgrim now published

Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy

Rebecca Nesvet wins VPFA First Book Prize

IRH congratulates Rebecca on this impressive achievement.

New book by Mitra Sharafi

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the :aw of Crime in Colonial South Asia

Full List of Incoming and Returning IRH Fellows 2026-2027

IRH Director Steven Nadler is pleased to announce the full cohort of incoming and returning IRH Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year.

New article by Lisa H. Cooper

"Of Catalogs, Cupboards, and Chemists: Revising the Handlist of the Ordinal of Alchemy"