The Department of Medieval Studies and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) very warmly congratulate Divna Manolova (MA’08, PhD candidate) for having been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious junior fellowship at the world’s foremost research center for Byzantine studies, Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, for the academic year 2011/12.
Ms Manolova will pursue an exciting research project, ‘Paradigms of Knowledge in Nikephoros Gregoras’ Epistolary Collection’.
Recently, Ms Manolova has been an interim coordinator of CEU’s Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and respresented the Medieval Studies students on the 2010 EUI/CEU GRACEH postgraduate conference steering committee; she is currently on the organizing committee of the 2011 CEMS graduate student day in late antique, Byzantine and Ottoman studies (under the auspices of CEU’s 20th anniversary celebrations).
We wish Ms Manolova every success for her sojourn at Dumbarton Oaks.
With CEU PhD candidate Florin Leonte (MA’07) and post-doc Dr Réka Forrai (MA’01, PhD’08), who held a junior fellowship and full fellowship in the academic years 2009/10 and 2010/11 respectively, Byzantine and medieval studies at CEU are receiving the distinction of sending fellows to Dumbarton Oaks in three subsequent academic years.
In addition to our current students, three departmental alumnae have been awarded fellowships in recent years:
- Yuliya Minets (MA’08) held a junior fellowship during the academic year 2008/9, affiliated with the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine),
- Dr Ildikó Csepregi (MA’01, PhD’07) a fellowship during fall term 2010, then affiliated with the University of Reading’s Department of Classics;
- Dr Katya Kovalchuk (MA’00, MPhil’05), who received her PhD from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2008, will join Ms Manolova this coming academic year (2011/12).