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URI medieval scholar leads international team to produce landmark ‘History of the Papacy’

Joëlle Rollo-Koster headshot in a library

Professor Koster – editor of the Cambridge University Press 3-Volume History of the Papacy

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History Undergraduate Students Win URI Writing Awards

Bridget Clossick and Dennis Haggerty won in the Advocacy Category

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Dr. Widell Helps Frame Historical Protest Movements

The American paradox of protest: Celebrated and condemned, welcomed and muzzled

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Medieval Europe was far from democratic, but that didn’t mean tyrants got a free pass – Dr. Joelle Koster Explains

URI history professor elected Fellow of Medieval Academy of America

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, a history professor at the University of Rhode Island and a renowned medieval scholar, has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a medievalist.

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Dr. DeCesare’s Research Poster Featured at AHA, 2024

Poster titled “The American Ship John Jay and the British Warship HMS Driver: Two Vessels, Two Countries, Two Intersecting Stories, 1806”

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Arts and Sciences fellows show off summer projects

Dr. DeCesare and History Students Feature

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Professor Koster Explains Why There Were Once Three Popes – TEDEd

Professor Loomis – New York Times Op-Ed

Why the Amazon Workers Never Stood a Chance

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Professor Nevius Discusses – The Legacy of Racial Hatred in the January 6 Insurrection

The U.S.’s politics of racial hatred are sustained by a culture of making political compromises when bold action is required.

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