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 Awards & Grants

Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship, 2023-2024, Columbia University, The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities

Innovation Grant, 2023, Medieval Academy of America, Graduate Student Committee

Community Building Award, 2022, Medieval Academy of America, Graduate Student Committee

Public History Project Grant, Spring 2021, Columbia University, Lehman Center for American History

History in Action Project Awards, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Columbia University, Department of History

Events

“Modern Extremism and the Medieval World.” Workshop, Cornell University, 2023.

“History in a Time of Polarization.” Online workshop, Columbia University, 2022.

Medievalist Toolkit Working Session, Columbia University, 2018.

Presentations

“Workshop: Writing for a Public Audience (Presented by the Medievalist Toolkit).” Session for the 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame, 2024.

“Academics but Not Activists: The Medievalist Toolkit for Building Bridges Between Disciplines.” Paper for the International Conference on Social and Environmental Justice Conference Program, Fordham School of Law, 2023.

“The Medievalist Toolkit: Building bridges between academics and public-facing professionals.” Invited speaker, Medieval Academy of America-GSC Community Outreach Workshop, 2023.

“The Medievalist Toolkit: Challenges and opportunities in collaboration.” Discussants at the IUDC Medieval Symposium, Fordham University, 2022.

 “Teaching the Middle Ages in a Time of White Nationalism.” Paper for the 134th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, 2022.

 “Medievalist Toolkit: Rethinking Outreach and Medieval Narratives.” Discussants at the Haskins Society Fall 2020 Online Conference, Carleton College, 2020.

“Teaching Beyond the Classroom with the Medievalist Toolkit.” Paper for the 94th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, The University of Pennsylvania, 2019.

Publications

Le Pouésard, Emma, et. al. “Scholarly Writing as Activism,” Teaching the Middle Ages in Higher Ed (2018): https://medievalhighered.omeka.net/items/show/45.

Courses taught

HIST/WGST 3910 “Medievalism and Orientalism,” Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Prof. Robin Reich, Fall Quarter, 2023.

HIST 1200 “Use and Abuse of the Middle Ages in the Modern World,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Prof. Adam C. Matthews, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

HST 239 “Extremism and the Medieval World,” Union College, Schenectady, NY, Prof. Sarina Kuersteiner, Winter Term, 2023.

Medievalist Toolkit Graduate Reading Group, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, Prof. Robin Reich, Spring Term, 2023; Benjamin Bertrand, AY 2023-2024.