Alumna Kyra Lyublyanovics (MEDS '09), recently earned Honorable Mention in the award handed out by the András Kubinyi Foundation for Medieval Studies, a prestigious award within the Hungarian academic community.
She defended the awarded dissertation, 'The Socio-Economic Integrations of Cumans in Medieval Hungary - An Archaeozoological Approach' at the CEU Department of Medieval Studies in 2015. The work deals with animal bone remains recovered from archaeological sites from the Cuman habitation area, in the 13th-16th centuries. With interdisciplinary methods, using written sources and archaeological remains alike, the dissertation reconstructs the animal husbandry practices, animal-related beliefs, the everyday methods of meat processing, possible veterinary treatments as well as the Cumans' role in the late medieval animal trade.
Congratulations, Kyra!