2025 Claudia Rattazzi Papka Memorial Fund Grant Recipients

For Conference and Research Travel

Mónica Cerda Campero (Ph.D. Candidate Latin American and Iberian Cultures)
Winter School in Interdisciplinary Biodiversity at Ca' Foscari University, in Venice, Italy and archival research at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) in Rome, Italy

Chas Firestone East (Ph.D Candidate Italian)
“Reason and Observation: An Analysis of Beatrice’s Cosmological Methodologies in Paradiso II” at the Modern Language Association Conference (New Orleans, LA)

Jacob LeMaster (M.A. Candidate Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Participant in 2025 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Sheena McKeever (Ph.D. Candidate History)
“The Iron Hand: Crafting Prosthetics in Sixteenth-Century Europe” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference (Boston, MA)

Angelica Modabber (Ph.D. Candidate Italian)
"The Aestheticization of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Guarino Guarini’s Architecture" at the Renaissance Society of America Conference (Boston, MA)