Art History's Sonja Drimmer Awarded Excellence in Teaching Award by the Medieval Academy of America

Sonja Drimmer, assistant professor of art history, has been awarded the CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Medieval Academy of America “for her outstanding role teaching, mentoring, and inspiring undergraduate and graduate students.”

“During her short time at UMass, Drimmer has created profound collaborations that have drawn together her colleagues at UMass as well as at Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges, creating a vibrant medieval studies network,” the committee noted in bestowing Drimmer the award. “She has coordinated the Five College Art History Seminar, as well as high profile campus events, and given talks across the campuses. She has expanded conversations about medieval studies in publications in The Atlantic and The Washington Post as well as social media, giving voice to the role of the medieval in the broader world. In collaboration with the librarians and archivists at Special Collections and the University Archives, she has assembled manuscripts and manuscript reproductions for faculty use with students in courses on early book history, medieval and late antique manuscripts and textual transmission, and has fostered a form of teaching that is collaborative, generous and exhilarating. This award recognizes that achievement.”