Fellowships Will Support Dissertations on Frankish Disputing and Boethius
Continuing a tradition of excellence and recognition, two doctoral candidates in medieval history in the Department of History have recently been awarded highly competitive fellowships.
Amos Bronner has been awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) graduate scholarship to spend the next academic year in Berlin, working with Professor Stefan Esders at the Freie Universität (link here). This will enable him to continue work toward his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Frankish Disputing, 750-1000”, under the direction of Professor Jennifer Davis. Amos had previously received a Fulbright Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024, which has enabled him to do research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Professor Davis says “The DAAD fellowship is a wonderful opportunity for Amos to spend a year in Berlin with my colleague, Stefan Esders, who works on many of the same issues as Amos. This is particularly a feather in Amos’s cap following his Fulbright to Austria this year. It has been a pleasure to watch Amos garner such notable successes with these prestigious and very hard to get fellowships.”
Jane Maschue has been awarded an E.K. Rand Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America, to support research for her dissertation entitled “Saint, Scholar, Martyr: Boethius in the Margins, 800-1500”, under the direction of Professor Katherine L. Jansen (link here). Professor Jansen notes that this award “couldn’t be more fitting”: it was established to honor Edward Kenneth Rand (1871-1945), who was among other things himself a scholar of Boethius, and who was the founder of the Medieval Academy’s journal, Speculum, for which Jane currently serves as Editorial Assistant. Jane also recently received the distinction “Student Commendation”for the paper she presented at the recent Medieval Academy annual conference at Notre Dame, Indiana 14-16 March 2024, entitled “The Mysterious Epitaph of a Spurious Wife: The Addition of Elpis to the Story of Boethius”.