Congratulations to Laura Moncion who has successfully defended her dissertation, "'Closen leben das ist nut ein cleines ding': Women Recluses in Alsace, c.1200–1500." Thank you to Laura's Co-Supervisors Isabelle Cochelin and Shami Ghosh, and to Exam Chair Charlie Keil, Supervisory Committee Member Markus Stock, Member Alison More, and External Appraiser Eva Schlotheuber (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).
During Laura's studies at CMS, she presented papers at conferences such as “Medieval Undergrounds” The 16th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium, "The Other Sister": New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800), Medieval Women Workshop III: "Writers and Subjects", and “We are all servants ”- The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe, among others. She contributed to the Centre as a member of several committees throughout the years, and in sharing her research on women recluses in late-medieval Alsatian towns, and discussing her participation as a Member and Research Assistant of The Other Sister project in the Chronica II. Her work has been published in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Imaginations: Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image / Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, the Heythrop Journal, and the Global Medieval Sourcebook, and she was the recipient of the 2022-2023 Historical Studies Teaching Award.
Laura will begin her Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study / Institute for Ethics and the Common Good next month.
Congratulations to Dr. Moncion on all her wonderful accomplishments!