Feb 18
History's 2020 Edward H. (Ted) Mullin Presentations!
REMINDER - TODAY!!!
We are looking forward to hearing the two presentations of our 2018-2019 winners of the Edward H. (Ted) Mullin Prize Fellowship.
Refreshments will be served to celebrate Tyler Hruby and Read Wilder's exciting experiential learning journeys!
Tyler Hruby, '20, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Memory and Representation in Their Lived Spaces
When Marx and Engels were expelled from their countries of residence because of their radical ideas, they traveled throughout Europe to organize with other radicals. They left a rather large trail from Berlin, to Paris, to Brussels, to London. This summer Tyler will visit the homes, meeting places, museums, and universities where Marx and Engels carried out their lives and collectively developed what came to be known as Marxism. With nearly two centuries having passed since they occupied these spaces, Tyler will be investigating the extent to which these cities remember—or forget—the legacy left by Marx and Engels. In so doing, he hopes to understand how city governments, institutions, and individuals within these cities have used their connection to Marx and Engels to forge an understanding of their relationship to these two controversial figures.
Read Wilder, '20, Cluny Illuminated: Search for Identity in Cluniac Manuscripts and Monasteries
Reed will spend several weeks this summer in Paris, Brussels, and Cambridge to conduct research into the development of community identity in the influential medieval abbey of Cluny and its network of dependent monastic houses. He will study the manuscripts and do site visits to several monasteries. He seeks to explore the ways in which material objects and spaces had roles to play in defining and disseminating Cluniac identity. His results will contribute to a longstanding problem in medieval history: how did Cluny, and powerful monasteries in general, administer their sprawling monastic empires?
All Junior History majors who have a dream research idea that you've always wanted to pursue, a summer travel and experiential learning journey, you are invited to submit your own research and travel proposal for History's Edward H. (Ted) Mullin Junior Fellowship award: https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/Awards/mullin/