Niall Atkinson—an Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College—and his team have received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to continue work on their project, Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society. Professor Atkinson is co-leading the project alongside Sidney Gause (Washington and Lee University), Anne Leader (University of Virginia), Peter W. Sposato (Indiana University Kokomo), and Lorenzo Vigotti (University of Bologna).
Through a public web-based interface, the Florence Illuminated project will consolidate data from five digital humanities projects focused on the cultural history of late-medieval and early-modern Florence, supporting even more research in many fields and prompting questions that scholars haven’t even considered yet. Read more about the project from the Division of the Humanities.
Maximilien Novak, a 2022 PhD recipient who now works as a lecturer at Dartmouth College, has earned the Prix de la Fondation Tilsit 2024 pour la Diplomatie from the Institut de France. He was recognized for his work on French diplomacy during the Napoleonic era. Read more about the honor from the Department of French and Italian at Dartmouth College.