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Creagh Factor, "An Ode to the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies"

CMEMS undergraduate Creagh Factor reflects on her time with the Center in The Stanford Daily.

CMEMS Alumnus Lane Baker Awarded 2026 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

Lane Baker (Ghent University; History PhD '25, and former CMEMS Workshop Coordinator) is the winner of the 2026 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, for "From Encounter to Expulsion: Romani Immigrants in the Holy Roman Empire, 1417-1498." 

Simon Frisch (PhD Candidate in Music, Stanford) Awarded 2025 AMS Paul A. Pisk Prize

Simon Frisch (Music, Stanford) has been awarded the American Musicological Society's 2025 Paul A. Pisk Prize. The prize is awarded annually to two graduate music students for scholarly papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society. 

Workshops and Research Groups

CMEMS sponsors and co-sponsors a wide range of workshops and research groups at Stanford!

Each of the research groups provide a range of possibilities for students and faculty to engage in discussion and debate about medieval and early modern scholarship. 

CMEMS Weekly Workshop

  • The focal point of CMEMS, this lunchtime workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.

Medieval Studies Workshop

  • Organizing research workshops, reading groups, and medieval Latin lessons, this workshop serves graduate students at Stanford on any aspect of the Middle Ages broadly understood. 

Recent Happenings

Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Philip Russell Hardie
Date
Tuesday, February 17, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
252

Join us for the third seminar, on Tuesday, January 17, at 4:30pm in Pigott Hall 252 for a…

Date
Wednesday, February 11, 2026. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
(450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305)
Room 252, German Studies Library
Speaker:
Luca Piccoli, Carla Mazzarelli

With a response from Paula Findlen. See the abstract and bios below. 

“The talk, part of the SNSF research project Visibility…

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