Winner of the 2012 Prize for Best Article by a Graduate Student Announced

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2012 Prize for Best Article by a Graduate Student is Jennifer Freeman, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University.  Her essay, “Theologizing Gender in the Rothschild Canticles,” which was written for a course with Professor Kathleen Flake, will be published in the winter issue of Medieval Feminist Forum.  The Award Committee considered a strong field of papers, which represented the best of graduate student feminist scholarship written in the 2011-2012 academic year.  Jennifer will be honored at the SMFS reception at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May.