Medieval Studies PhD candidate Alice Wolff has earned a Knight Institute James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence honorable mention for "History of an Ingredient: Introduction to Primary Source Analysis," an assignment in her First Year Writing Seminar, "Aspects of Medieval Culture: Food in the Medieval World." The Slevin Award is given for excellence in assignment sequences in a writing course.
Alice is an environmental archaeologist and historian working to understand the interactions between human society, plant ecology, and climate change in premodern Europe. Her dissertation looks at weeds as a cultural concept and agroecological reality in northern England and northwest Europe more broadly over the past two millennia.
