2023 Claudia Rattazzi Papka Memorial Fund Grant Recipients

For Conference Travel

Claudia Antonini (Ph.D. Candidate Italian)
“Niccolo Machiavelli’s Political Poetry and the Ottoman Turks: On De Ingratitudine, vv. 160-162” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

Ryanne Berry (M.A. Candidate Medieval & Renaissance Studies)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Catherine Bloomer (Ph.D. Candidate Italian)
"'Ciotto', 'Sciancato', 'Zoppo': A Dantean Hierarchy of Mobility Disabilities" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI)

Mónica Cerda Campero (Ph.D. Candidate Latin American & Iberian Cultures)
"Bartolomé de las Casas' Project of the Indies: Economic Theology and the Management of the End of time" at the Renaissance Society of America (San Juan, PR)

Caroline Chang (M.A. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Alejandro Cuadrado (Ph.D. Candidate Italian & ICLS)
“Dante’s Churchscape and the History of Religious Institutions in the Commedia” at the MLA Convention (San Francisco, CA)

Evyan Gainey (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
"The Theatrical Model of Disability in Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen" at the Shakespeare Association of America (Minneapolis, MN)

Juan Carlos Garzon Mantilla (Ph.D. Candidate Latin American & Iberian Cultures)
"The Yungas, the Antisuyo, and the Origins of the World" at the Latin American Studies Association (Vancouver, Canada)

Virginia Girard (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
"To Open a Mountain: Constructing the Priory of Montaigne Sainte-Victoire" at the Renaissance Society of America (San Juan, PR)

Chris Klippenstein (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
"The Uses and Abuses of Civilty, 100-1700" at the Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Ashley Leader (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Isaline Lefrançois (M.A. Candidate Medieval & Renaissance Studies)
"A Tale of the Norman Conquest: The Role of Gifts in the Bayeux Embroidery" at the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies (Cambridge, MA)

Grant Miner (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Alina Shubina (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Anya Wilkening (Ph.D. Candidate Music)
Participant in 2023 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France