News & Events

Jennifer Immich (Anthropology) has been awarded the Barry Prize by the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS). This is an annual prize awarded for the best conference paper on a subject of relevance to Irish Medieval Studies written by a graduate student. Jennifer's winning interdisciplinary paper is titled "Three Timber Castles: Modeling Landscape Siting with GIS." Please join us in congratulating Jennifer!

Congratulations to Barbara Weissberger, Professor Emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese! Her article "'Es de Lope': Child Martyrdom in Cervantes's Baños de Argel", published in the journal Cervantes, 32.2, (Fall 2012), was awarded the Luis Andrés Murillo Prize for best article of the year in that journal.

Ann Zimo (History) has been awarded the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers' Multi-Country Research Fellowship. These will allow her to spend next year abroad completing research for her dissertation on the experience of the Muslim communities under crusader rule.

Amanda Taylor (English) has received the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for European Studies, Summer 2013 (Italian) and the English's department's Marcella DeBourg Fellowship, awarded to students whose work gives "creative expression to women's lives."

Congratulations to Ann and Amanda!

Ann Zimo (History) has been awarded the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers' Multi-Country Research Fellowship. These will allow her to spend next year abroad completing research for her dissertation on the experience of the Muslim communities under crusader rule.

Amanda Taylor (English) has received the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for European Studies, Summer 2013 (Italian) and the English's department's Marcella DeBourg Fellowship, awarded to students whose work gives "creative expression to women's lives."

Congratulations to Ann and Amanda!

Rachel Gibson (French and Italian) has been awarded a 2012 SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship. The fellowship will support a year of research abroad in Paris at the BNF, and in Venice at the Marciana Library and Venetian State Archives.

Basit Hammad Qureshi (History) has received the Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship from the Embassy of France in the U.S. The fellowship will support a year of archival research at several departmental archives in central and western France as well as at the BNF in Paris.

Congratulations to them both!

History graduate students Basit Hammad Qureshi and Ann Zimo have successfully completed a semester of study at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan where they were able to focus on Classical Arabic grammar and texts. In their spare time, they individually made several trips around the Middle East in conjunction with their research touching on the crusades. They are pictured here on a recent pilgrimage to Petra, a locale more inspirational than relevant, but spectacular nonetheless. They both look forward to returning to Minnesota in January and rejoining the CMS community in the coming semester.