Graduate Essay Prize Recipients
First Year and O'Callaghan Graduate Essay Prizes
2023: James Terrasi,
Oimais digam de·ls eretgues: Early evidence of “Good Men” in Lo codi?
2022: Maria Carriere
Narrative Composition and Dynastic Memory: Angevin Women in Ernoul-Bernard
2021: Isabelle Bunten
Love in the Garden/Death on the Cross: Uncovering Patron Influence in a Book of Hours from Rouen
2020: Co-Winners
Iris Loritz
Two Systems of Priestly Sexuality in the Inquisitorial Register of Jacques Fournier
Frances Eshleman
Epicurus and Dante's Vision of Heresy
Honorable Mention: Peyton Seabolt
Intersectionality of Horses and Religious Institutions in the Chancery Records of Edward III
2019: No essay prizes awarded.
2018: Doug Hamilton
Tension in the Margins: Flagellants and Anticlerical Imagery in the Glazier Peacock Manuscript
2017: Ashley N. Newby
'Jeo vous pri Jhesu o simple voyz': Recovering a Woman's Prayers from the Alphonso Psalter
2016: Stephen Powell
The 'Descriptio Scotie': Geography as Propaganda in the Contesxt of Plimpton MS 266
2015: Katherine Briant
Beholding broken bodies: pain as a theological framework in Julian of Norwich's Vision and Revelation
2014: Ruth Whaley
Story-Telling at Sea: Changes in the Crusade Chronicle
2013: Abigail Sargent
A New Homeland for Authentic Armenians: Vahram of Edessa's Rhymed Chronicle and the Construction of a Cilician Armenian Identity
2012: Louisa Foroughi
"They reputyth Englysch pepyll for none nac[iou]n": Scriptural Translation and Nationhood in Columbia University Library Plimpton MS 259
2011: Co-Winners
John Burden
Petrarch and the Pursuit of Fame in "Ascent of Mount Ventoux"
Br. John Glasenapp, OSB
Unsounded Number: Music, Architecture, and Meaning at the Dedication of the Cathedral of Florence
2010: William Little
The Virtues, Friendship, and Rhetoric in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni
2009: Carlo DaVia
Augustine and the Secularization of the Polity
2008: Peter Slonina
A Critical Treatment of Plimpton MS 04
2007: Kevin T. Mallon
To Realize, Rectify, and Release: The Purpose of Reading in Petrarch's Secretum
2006: Nicole Brennan
Two Versions of the Sermo Lupi ad Anglos
2005: James Manning
Judging a Book by its Covers: An Analysis of a "Mass Produced" Book of Hours
2004: Heather Blatt
Memory and the City in Troilus and Criseyde
2003: Heidi Febert
"Roland is Brave and Oliver is Wise": The Meaning of Vassalage in The Song of Roland
2002: James S. Tedford
A Case for the Interpolation of the Genesis 1:26 Periscope in the Sefer ha Berit of Rabbi Joseph ben Isaac Kimhi
2001: Co-Winners
Denise Griggs
Chrétien in Context: Bibliothéque Nationale f.fr 1450
Thomas Zahora
Laughing in the Cloister with the Philosopher
2000: Maureen Horgan
The Beguines of Leuven and the Crib of the Infant Jesus: A Closer Look
O'Callaghan Essay Prize in Medieval Studies
2023: Carmeliz Ramas-Fisk,
Inheritance and Memory: A Case Study of the County of Tripoli from the Lignages d’Outremer
2022: Alice Grissom,
"Mi Bodi Henge Wið Þi Bodi": Dying with Christ in Þe Wohunge of ure Lauerd
2021: Alana Kilcoyne,
Written on Hands and Feet: Comownycacyon and Connection in The Book of Margery Kempe
Honorable Mention: Elissa Johnston,
Tasting the Fruit of the Orchard: Translating Catherine of Siene in Late Medieval England
2020: Co-winners
Jason Ray,
Queer Recognition and Reparative Reading in The Wanderer
Camila Marcone,
Textiles and Morals: Searching for Hugh of St. Victor in the Divina Commedia
2019: no prizes awarded
2018: Rachel Podd
Women 'in travell': Reconsidering Maternal Mortality in Late Medieval England
2017: Kevin Vogelaar
Sonic Exorcism: The Bell as object of spiritual Purification in the Polemic of Eulogius and Albar of Cordoba
2016: Kevin Vogelaar
Painted Reminiscence: Expressing 13th Century Syriac Christian Nostalgia for ‘Abbasid Rule in Pierpont Morgan MS M.235
2015: Alexander Profaci
Ars Brevis, Vita Longa: Brevitas, Norman Identity and the Beginnings of Vernacular Historiography in the Thirteenth Century Prose Chronique de Normandie
2014: Tobias Hrynick
The Customs of Romney Marsh: Compromise and Common Interest in Wetland Administration
2013: Jeffrey Doolittle
The Logic of Early Medieval Medicine: The Design and Use of Medical Texts from Montecassino (MS 69 and MS 97)
2012: Jeffrey Doolittle
Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours
2011: Camin Melton
The Embedded Cross in Andreas: Pointing to a New Kind of Punctuation in Old English Poetry
2010: Sarah Townsend
Illustrating Social Status: Fashion in the Marginal Drawings of a Fourteenth Century Breviary from Tavistock, Devonshire
2009: Richard P. Hresko
London Arms and Armor-Makers in the Fourteenth Century: A Portrait of a Medieval Industrial Sector
2008: M. Christina Bruno
The Canon Law of Indulgences and its Audience: Franciscan Observant Sermons in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy
2007: Samantha Sagui
Crime and Conviviality: The Social Space of Urban Drinking-Houses in Medieval England
Prophecy in Welsh Manuscripts
2005: Ken Mondschein
A Matter of Time
2004: Jonathan Armstrong
Text and Tradition: The Journey to the Idea of the New Testament
2003: Heidi Febert
Buckled, Wired and Pinned: The Mass Consumption of Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England
2002: Rebecca Slitt
Dedicated to Peace: Political Allegory in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
2001: Janine Larmon Peterson
Ephemeral Boundaries: The Transmission of Alberic of Montecassino's Breviarum de Dictamine