01/04/2015

ISHR 2014 Research Fellowship Recipients Announced

The International Society for the History of Rhetoric is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Fellowship competition. Fellowships are for US$5000.00 (or the equivalent). The winners and their projects are:

Ana Isabel Correia Martins - Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Faculdade de Letras da Univ (Portugal)

Title of Proposed Project: Apophthegmatic Literature in Portuguese Humanism: The Rhetoric of loci communes and the Pedagogy of genus sententiarum

Fiammetta Papi - Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)

Title of Proposed Project: Vernacular Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy. A manuscript-based study of the Aristotelian tradition

Hany Rashwan - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)

Title of Proposed Project: The role of Comparative Rhetoric in reconstructing the philosophical and literary rhetorical systems of ancient Egypt

Abraham Romney - Michigan Technological University (USA)

Title of Proposed Project: Rhetoric in the Archives of Chile