We would like to invite applications for this year’s Peter R. Brown Prize.
The Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity sponsors the annual Peter R. Brown Prize for the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity. The prize…
Yitz Landes, a graduate student in the Department of Religion, won the prize for his paper "The Rise of the Jewish Patriarchate and the Dissemination of Rabbinic Literature". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.
The notion of time has emerged in both medieval art history and musicology as a key category for understanding works of art in their historical and cultural contexts. This graduate workshop investigates the notion of time as a fundamental dimension in the various artistic expressions of the Middle Ages. It offers doctoral candidates in a…
Walter Beers, a graduate student in the Department of History, won the prize for his paper "A Miaphysite Subalternity? John of Ephesus, the Jafnids, and the Villages of the Ḥawrān". The prize is given annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity.
The CSLA welcomes submissions for the Peter R. Brown Prize, which is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay on any subject relating to the study of Late Antiquity. The prize consists of a cash award of $1000.
Eligibility
Princeton graduate students from all departments are welcome to apply.
Princeton’s Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity have launched a new website, Middle Ages for Educators, aimed at high school and college students and educators worldwide and,…
The 2020 prize has been awarded to two students, Joe Glynias (History) and Omri Matarasso (History). Glynias wrote on “Byzantine Monasticism on the Black Mountain west of Antioch in the 10th-11th centuries”, and Matarasso wrote on “Making Sense of a Mediterranean Controversy in Byzantine North Africa: The Collectio Sichardiana and…
Jack Tannous, an associate professor of history and Hellenic studies, assumed his position as chair of the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity on July 1. In this Q&A, Tannous shares a bit about himself and his plans for the CSLA in the midst of an academic year that is shaping up to be unlike any other.
Toni Alimi, a graduate student in the Department of Religion, received funding from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity to travel to the U.K. to attend the Oxford Patristics Conference in August 2019.
Below, Alimi shares more about his experiences abroad and how…