Please join us on Thursday, September 4th at 3:00pm CT for the 2025 Douglas Schewe Award lecture. This year’s award will be presented to two awardees: Sarah Ganzel and Katie Juneau.
Sarah Ganzel (Ph.D. Student) will present her paper, “The Skin That Bleeds: Piercing the Human Animal Divide in MS Egerton 1821,” which was nominated by Professor Thomas Dale.
Katie Juneau (Ph.D. Student) will present her paper, “The Deep Despair of Surviving a Normal Day: The Recontexualization of Nineteenth Century Women’s Dramatic Visual Suffering in Internet Memes,” which was nominated by Professor Nancy Rose Marshall.
The Douglas Schewe Award is awarded each year to a student deemed to have produced the best seminar or research paper during the previous academic year. Douglas Schewe taught reading and English at Madison Area Technical College for 23 years until his retirement in 1993. He was also a collector of art and a familiar presence in our art history classrooms for many years, often engaging in penetrating discussions with professors in person, or by letter. In donating the funds, he specified that the paper should be “based on a plausible premise, supported by reason and logic, open to evidence and willingly discussing with academic objectivity, and criticism with those (scholars) having different points of view.”
