2024 Claudia Rattazzi Papka Memorial Fund Grant Recipients

For Conference and Research Travel

Claire Dillon (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“A Global Mediterranean? Tracing the fragmented histories of silk in medieval Sicily” at the MAA Annual Meeting (South Bend, IN)

Evyan Gainey (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
“Blood on the Tracks: Disability and the Repertoire in Early Modern Drama” at the Modern Language Association Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

Katherine Gobel (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Bruegel’s Children: The Whitsun Bride in Netherlandish Art” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Baltimore, MD)

Isabella Gold (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Order and Disorder in Bourbon New Spain: Food, Drink, and Tobacco in Casta Painting” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference (Chicago, IL)

Alana Kilcoyne (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Whitney Kite (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Disappearing Evidence: Uncovering the History of a Monastery in Peril” at the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Stephanie Reitzig (Ph.D. Candidate in History)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Juan Camilo Rojas Gomez (Ph.D. Candidate Latin American & Iberian Cultures)
“Christian Frameworks Traveling West: Early-Modern Ekphrastic Idolatries on the Americas and the Far East” at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)

Elizabeth Wickersham (M.A. Candidate in Art History & Archaeology)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France