Announcing the 2012-2013 DVMA Graduate Student Paper Prize winner!!
As part of its mission, the DVMA aims to involve young medievalists in the local scholarly community and to help support their work as they enter the field. Every year, the organization awards a Paper Prize to a deserving graduate student, judged on the basis of quality, originality, and clarity of scholarship. This year's competition is now complete, and we are delighted to announce that the winner is Agnieszka Szymanska, Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Temple University. Agnes won the award for her paper "The Celestial Firmament and the Geometric Construction of the 'Mugarnas' ", which was presented at the April 13 meeting of the DVMA.