In spite of the many changes in curriculum brought about by the global pandemic, these 2021 graduates continued to shine. A look at their activities at FSU and plans for the future…

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Dowell and Dr. Lynn Jones, who each received the 2020-21 FSU Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, in recognition of outstanding mentoring and teaching in the classroom. In the graduate division, only eight of these highly competitive university-wide awards are given each year.

Sonia Dixon has accepted the William Sanders Scarborough Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the fall of 2021. She will conduct research in Greece for her dissertation on the origin and meaning of the chi-rho symbol in the Late Antique and early Byzantine period.

Doctoral candidates Rachel Carlisle, Alexandra Challenger, and Lacy Gillette will represent Florida State University at this year’s Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual meeting, which convenes online April 13-15 and 20-22, 2021.

Continuing Art History’s sweep of the 2020–21 FSU faculty awards, Dr. Stephanie Leitch has received the Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. Only five of these highly competitive university-wide awards are given each year.

Congratulations to Leigh Daniel and Sarah Mathiesen, winners of the 2021 I.N. Winbury Award for excellence in research and writing. The award is presented annually to one PhD student and one MA student, based on evaluation of papers by a panel of fellow students.