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Heather Duncan

PhD Candidate

Research Interests

  • Frontier regions of Late Antiquity
  • Barbarian kingdoms
  • Cultural exchange and identity 
  • Material culture
  • Numismatics
  • Materiality of manuscripts

Education

BA in History - Missouri State University

MA in History - Southeastern Louisiana University

Grants

  • FLAS Fellowship - Hungarian (2021-2022)
  • Summer Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant (2023)
  • ABD Fellowship (2023-2024)

Awards and Honors

  • Lawrence M. Larson Scholarship for Studies in Medieval or English History (2022)
  • Joseph Ward Swain Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper (2023)
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (2022, 2023)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Medieval Studies Program

EU Center

Senate Library Committee

 

 

Recent Publications

“The Roman Republican System and Representative Government,” in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Representation, publication forthcoming.

“The History of the Gepids: Forgotten or Misplaced?” Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 19, no. 1 (2023): 27-54.