Carole Ellen Straw | |
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Awards | John Nicholas Brown Prize (1992) |
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Thesis | 'Sweet Tortures and Delectable Pains': The Grammar of Complementarity in the Works of Gregory the Great (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Gerard Caspary, Peter Brown, and Robert Rogers |
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Discipline | History |
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Carole Ellen Straw is Professor Emerita of History at Mount Holyoke College. She researches various aspects of Christian history and thought in late antiquity and the early middle ages,with particular emphasis on Gregory the Great and Christian martyrdom. [1] She has worked at the University of Chicago and Mount Holyoke College and received the John Nicholas Brown Prize in 1992 for her book Gregory the Great:Perfection in Imperfection.
She completed her doctoral studies at the University of California,Berkeley in 1979,under the direction of Gerard Caspary,Peter Brown,and Robert Rogers. [2] [3] Her thesis was titled 'Sweet Tortures and Delectable Pains':The Grammar of Complementarity in the Works of Gregory the Great. [4] Following a year as a Harper Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago,in 1980 she began teaching at Mount Holyoake College,where she has remained ever since. Her first monograph,Gregory the Great:Perfection in Imperfection (1988) won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America in 1992. [5] The prize is awarded to authors whose first book or monograph related to medieval studies is judged to be "outstanding". [6]
She was made a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1991. She is also the author of numerous publications on Gregory the Great,the history of Christian martyrdom and its legacies,and other themes in ascetic and monastic thought. [3]
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Mary Emma Woolley was an American educator,peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She was the first female student to attend Brown University and served as the 10th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 to 1937.
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Grace Elizabeth Bates was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at Mount Holyoke College. Bates specialized in algebra and probability theory,and she co-authored two textbooks:The Real Number System and Modern Algebra,Second Course. Throughout her own education,Bates overcame obstructions to her pursuit of knowledge,opening the way for future women learners.
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University,which made her one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in botany from any U.S. university.
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Susanna K. Elm is a German historian and classicist. She is the Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of European History at the Department of History at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of the later Roman Empire,late Antiquity and early Christianity. She is Associate Editor of the journals Church History and Studies in Late Antiquity and is a member of the editorial board for Classical Antiquity.
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Anna Cheney Edwards was a 19th-century American educator from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. She served as Associate Principal of Mount Holyoke Seminary,1872–1888;and as Professor of Theism and Christian Evidences,1888–1890.
Claudia Rapp FBA is a German scholar of the Byzantine Empire. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna,a position she has held since 2011.
Cornelia Catlin Coulter was an American classicist and academic who was Professor of Latin at Mount Holyoke College from 1926 to 1951. She is known in particular for her work on the Medieval and Renaissance use of Classical sources and for her presidency of and advocacy for the Classical Association of New England.
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Mary Esther Trueblood Paine was an American mathematician and sociologist who taught mathematics at Mount Holyoke College and the University of California,Berkeley.
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