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.

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”

Event: Department of French & Italian Research Seminar with Anne C. Vila

"How the Jansenist convulsionnaires Passed into Nineteenth-Century French Fiction: The Case of Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau"

Full List of Incoming and Returning IRH Fellows 2025-2026

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

Event: Spanish Fashion and the Threads of Empire in the Global Early Modern

A talk organized by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese