February 27, 2018

Dawn Hayes Receives Award From The Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund

Dawn Marie Hayes, associate professor in the Department of History, has been selected to receive the 2018 Summer Fellowship by the Bonnie Wheeler Fellowship Fund Committee. It is to support work on her second monograph, Roger II of Sicily: Strategies of Identity and Power in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean World.

Hayes is a historian of medieval Europe and her research interests include the social, religious and cultural history of the period, especially in the twelfth-century Mediterranean world. She is the author of Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389: Interpreting the Case of Chartres Cathedral (Taylor & Francis, 2003). Hayes is also working on a digital humanities project documenting the Norman Kingdom of Sicily (ca. 1060 – 1194).