Paul Majkut, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Letters and Sciences’ Department of Arts and Humanities, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grant at Oxford University.
The grant provides for study and research on the “Representations of the ‘Other’: Jews in Medieval Christendom.” The award was announced by Prof. Ivren Resnick, director of the NEH Institute, which will be located at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
The current NEH award follows a National Endowment for the Humanities grant Majkut received in 2006 to do research at Cambridge University on the seven deadly sins as cultural constructions in the Middle Ages. At that time, he was granted Reader privileges for medieval manuscripts and rare books at the Cambridge University Library. Majkut also holds Reader privileges for medieval manuscripts and rare books at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
“The Department of Arts and Humanities is once again proud of Prof. Majkut’s scholarly accomplishments. As in the past, we are confident that he will bring his research into courses he teaches and develops in our graduate program in English,” said Prof. Janet Baker, chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities.
