Professors Christopher MacEvitt (Religion) and Cecilia Gaposchkin (History) have been granted a Dartmouth Conference Award for their upcoming conference, "Cities of Relics."

Professor Christopher MacEvitt has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies. He will spend the 2015-16 academic year working on a book-length study at the American Academy in Rome.

Professor Christopher MacEvitt, an associate professor of religion, is in Rome this week preparing for a spring course he is teaching on sacred cities. He was in St. Peter’s Square on March 17, 2013, to hear Pope Francis deliver a Sunday prayer and greeting from the balcony of the papal apartments....

With Cardinals entering the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope, the spectacle of the conclave merges a centuries-old script with spur-of-the-moment improv, but the likelihood of a radical reformer emerging from the gathering is very slim.

Christopher MacEvitt, an associate professor of religion, has been awarded the Medieval Academy’s John Nicholas Brown Prize for his book The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance....