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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 4, 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:
Yafang Bao
Date
Monday, February 2, 2026. 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location
Building 200, History Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305
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Please join us for a reception at 7:00pm, with the lecture to follow at 7:30pm. 

Lord Sumption began his career as a medieval…

Date
Wednesday, January 28, 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:
Bénédicte Sère

With a response from Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum (Tel Aviv University). See the abstract below: 

"This paper examines how fifteenth-…

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