arco in the News
2007 Fall Semester
- UT Celebrates Shakespeare Week as Part of Medieval and Renaissance Semester
- Boston Camerata Performances at UT Tied to Columbus Day
- Jimmy and Dee Haslam create Marco Endowment
- UT Professor Wins Prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship
- Medieval and Renaissance Semester - Fall 2007 has been named the Medieval and Renaissance Semester at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Check this website for details about upcoming events!
- Romans & Alamanni International Symposium - The Marco Institute held this very successful symposium on May 15 & 16 of 2007, and a symposium volume is in the works.
- Marco Faculty and NEH Awards - Heather Hirschfeld, associate professor of English at UTK and Marco professor, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend for 2007. She received the grant for her project "Satisfactions of the Renaissance: Revenge Tragedy and the English Reformation."
- Marco Faculty Fellowship Awards - Mary Dzon, assistant professor of English and Marco professor, will be spending the 2007-2008 year at Emory University as a junior fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
- Medieval Latin Exam - Anthony Cox and Teresa Hooper, two of Marco's doctoral candidates, recently passed the Toronto MA Latin Exam, a Medieval Latin proficienty exam required for the Medieval Certificate at UTK.
- Byzantine Studies Prize - Marco doctoral candidate Eric Martin won second prize at last year's Byzantine Studies Conference for the best paper presented by a graduate student.