Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds during Class & Charter Day on May 13. The awards recognize individual accomplishment but reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the entire faculty.

A book review by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik has appeared in the latest issue of Speculum, the leading North American journal of medieval studies.

A new book review by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik has appeared in the most recent issue of the English Historical Review. Eldevik's review discusses "Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe," ed. Ludger Körntgen, and Dominik Wassenhoven (Berlin, 2011), a collection of scholarly essays by German and British historians on the role of bishops in early medieval politics and culture.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik presented a paper titled “Episcopal Authority and Scribal License: Charting the Lives of Ulrich of Augsburg in Late Ottonian Germany” at the 18th Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, held March 8-10 at New College of Florida in Sarasota.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik published an article titled “Bishops in the Medieval Empire: New Perspectives on the Church, State and Episcopal Office” in the peer-reviewed online journal History Compass.

Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik published a review of Mary Fischer’s The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin: A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia 1190-1331 in the September issue of The Medieval Review.