Professor Elizabeth Lapina has a new article published in The Medieval Globe titled, “Medievalism, Misogyny, and Orientalism: The Representation of Queen Sibylla in Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven.” This article is an historian’s engagement with Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and its portrayal of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem. It demonstrates that the film presents a myth …
Kathryn Ciancia was recently featured on the New Books Network podcast where she spoke about her new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020). Listen to and find out more information on the podcast at New Books Network.
Congratulations to Professor Francine Hirsch, who has received a 2021 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship from the American Society of International Law! Professor Hirsch received the Certificate of Merit for her recently published book, Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II …
Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Brepols, 2021) The volume contributes to reconstruction of medieval and early modern gaming culture through analysis of visual and material evidence. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, games were not an idle pastime, but were in fact important tools for exploring, transmitting, enhancing, …
Alumnus Paul Grant (Ph.D. 2017) has published his first book, Healing and Power in Ghana: Early Indigenous Expressions of Christianity (Baylor University Press, 2020). According to the publisher’s website: “Focusing on the southeastern Gold Coast in the middle of the nineteenth century, Healing and Power in Ghana identifies patterns of indigenous reception, rejection, and reformulation of what …
Kathryn Ciancia’s new book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020) is now available. Description: As a resurgent Poland emerged at the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish border guards, state officials, military settlers, teachers, academics, urban planners, and health workers descended upon Volhynia, …
Physical copies of the book are now available! Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War II to try the former Nazi leaders for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT), paved the way for global conversations about genocide, justice, and human rights that continue to this day. As Francine …
Professor Francine Hirsch is featured on a new episode of the SRB Podcast talking about her new book, Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford University Press, 2020). “The Allies organized the Nuremberg Trials to hold the Nazis accountable for their crimes and to restore …
Recent graduate Grace Allen (PhD 2017) had been teaching for the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen when the COVID-19 outbreak began. Since that time, Allen has joined the ranks of instructors at universities around the world who are teaching remotely and entirely online. Holding in place …
Alumna Katie Jarvis (Ph.D. 2014) has received the Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). The Louis Gottschalk Prize recognizes an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century. For the year 2020, this prize has been awarded to Katie Jarvis for her book Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, …