ISHR Grants 2021 Research Fellowship Recipients

ISHR Grants 2022 Research Fellowship Recipients (alphabetical order)

Dear ISHR members,

I am pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ISHR Research Fellowships. Congratulations to all recipients for winning this prestigious award and for your contributions to the study of the history of rhetoric.

Myrto ALOUMPI - University of Crete, Greece
Project Title> The Rhetoric of Assimilation: Foreigners and the Shaping of Athenian citizenship

Artur COSTRINO - Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brasil
Project Title> Imperiales Quaestiones: an examination of the sources and the context of the writing on rhetoric through the Carolingian empire 

Giulia GERBI - University Ca'Foscari – Venise, Italy
Project Title> Niceforo Basilace tra scuola e retorica

Serena MAURIELLO - University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
Project Title> Alain of Lille's Summa de Arte Praedicatoria: an Historical and Critical Commentary. With a Manuscript Survey

Thierry OPPENEER - Ghent University, Belgium
Project Title> The political uses of imperial Greek rhetoric: Hermogenes’ idea- and stasis-theory in the popular assembly

Michelle ZALESKI - Marymount University, USA
Project Title> The Indigenous Rhetorical Returns of Jesuit Education: Enseñassen lo que en la Escuela Deprendían”

Special thanks to the Research Awards Committee for their careful and time-consuming work requiring many difficult decisions:

Ida Gilda Mastrorosa (Italy), chair; James Crosswhite (USA); Marie-Pierre Noël (France) ; Alexander Riehle (Austria); and Violeta Pérez Custodio (Spain).

Best wishes,

Marc van der Poel
President, International Society for the History of Rhetoric