Dr. Cullen Chandler, assistant professor of history at Lycoming College, has been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $6,000 award will support Chandler’s research project “Carolingian Catalonia: politics and culture in the Spanish March.” The NEH provides these awards to support two consecutive months of full-time research and writing.

Chandler’s project involves the history of Catalonia in northeast Spain as it relates to the rest of the Carolingian Empire in Western Europe. Founded by the great ruler Charlemagne, the empire is called by some historians the first flowering of European civilization during the eighth and ninth centuries. The project investigates how Catalonia, called “the Spanish March” by the Carolingians, was incorporated into the empire as a conquered province both politically and culturally. His summer research will study a manuscript book from a Catalonian monastic library for possible evidence of anti-Semitic thought. 

In 2004, Chandler’s article “Between court and counts: Carolingian Catalonia and the aprisio system, 778-987,” won the Blackwell Publishers Essay Prize, which is awarded annually to the best article in the journal Early Medieval Europe.

Chandler, a graduate of Austin College, earned a master’s degree from Fordham University. He completed a doctorate in early medieval civilization at Purdue University.

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