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.

Announcement of Summer Humanities Grant Writing Workshop Participants 2025

Supervised by IRH Director Steven Nadler, participants will meet regularly throughout the summer to discuss their grant proposals.

Marla Ramírez wins Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities

IRH congratulates Marla on this achievement!

Jeremy Phillip Brown to publish book and co-authored monograph this fall

A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah and Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile (co-authored with Avishai Bar-Asher)

Elizabeth Athens receives tenure

Betsy is now Associate Professor of Art History, University of Connecticut.

Josephine Lovejoy wins Oliver Prize in Philosophy

The essay prize is given annually to a UW–Madison philosophy graduate student.

Event Wrap-Up: Space City Medievalism with Daniel Davies

This workshop series was held between April 8–10 in Houston.

IRH alumni fellow Marla Ramírez’s first book to be published this fall

The book, Banished Citizens, will be available on October 14, 2025.

Call for Applications: Summer Humanities Grant Writing Workshop

Applications are due on May 12

Elizabeth Athens Wins Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award

IRH congratulates Betsy on this tremendous achievement!

Event: Medieval Studies Lecture with Professor Richard C. Hoffmann

“Whispers of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Fisheries and Other Texts from Medieval Europe”