Cecily Hughes (MA 2022) Wins Medieval Academy of America Prize

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Cecily is now a third-year doctoral student at Case Western Reserve University. Her student bio is listed below.

Cecily Hughes is a third-year doctoral student studying with Professor Elina Gertsman. With an avid interest in Scandinavian medieval art, she is especially drawn to the wit and humor with which medieval makers imbued their objects. Recently, she has presented papers at the NLHF Medieval Animals Heritage Conference at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK and at the Midwest Art History Society’s 50th Annual Conference in Chicago. Cecily served as the 2023-2024 president of the university’s Graduate Association of Medieval Studies, and this year she is honored to act as co-chair of the 50th Annual Cleveland Symposium, “Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts.” Cecily holds an MFA in Contemporary Visual Culture from the University of Edinburgh. In 2022, she received her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her previous work includes positions at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cecily loves teaching and making medieval art accessible to all, adores dogs, enjoys swimming, and tolerates bad puns. [CWRU]