09/01/2026

ISHR 2026 Research Grant Recipients

ISHR 2026 Research Grant Recipients (alphabetical order)

Dear ISHR members,

I am pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ISHR Research Grants. Congratulations to all recipients for winning this prestigious award and for their contributions to the study of the history of rhetoric.

Cristiano Amendola (KU Leuven) The Age of (Vernacular) Eloquence: An Unpublished Ciceronian Ars dictaminis fromthe Fifteenth Century – A Critical and Digital Edition

George Brocklehurst (Southern Methodist University) Knowledge and the Nature of the Places in Ramist and Anti-Ramist Invention

Antonella Carbone (PhD cand.) (University of Liverpool): Inscribed Poetry in Late Antique Egypt: Rhetoric and Cultural Identity

Marina Diaz Bourgeal  (Madrid): The Rhetoric of Slavery in Late Antiquity 

Giovanni Margiotta (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale): A Gallery of Monsters: Progymnasmata and character portrayal in Juvenal’s Satires  

Ugo Valori (PhD cand.) (University of Milan & University of Southern Denmark): Patchwork Rhetoric:Reshaping the Curriculum with Aristotlein a Late-Byzantine Encyclopaedia

Special thanks to the Research Grants Committee for their careful and time-consuming work requiring many difficult decisions:

Christos Kremmydas (United Kingdom), chair; Ide François (Belgium); Biagio Santorelli (Italy); Lucía Díaz Marroquín (Spain); Tina Skouen (Norway); Jan Hessler (Germany)

Best wishes,

Robin Reames
President, International Society for the History of Rhetoric