05/26/2025

ISHR Research Grant Winners 2025

ISHR 2025 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 your contributions to the study of the history of rhetoric.

Andrea Consalvi (Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy)
A New Critical Edition of Iulius Rufinianus’ De figuris sententiarum et elocutionis

Serena Mauriello (Roma Tre University - Italy)
Alan of Lille’s Eight Sermones Ad Status 

Olivia Montepaone (Università degli Studi di Milano - Italy)
Leone Allacci on Aristotle’s Poetics and Rhetoric

Matilde Oliva (Università degli Studi di Firenze - Italy) 
Cicero and the Rhetoric of Power. “Paradoxical Portraits” between Oratory and Epistles

Martina Pavoni (Università degli Studi della Basilicata (Unibas) - Italy) 
Botus de Veglevano’s Liber floridus: a critical edition of a forgotten rhetorical treatise

Jannik Reiners (University of Wuppertal - Germany) 
Towards a New Critical Edition of Cicero’s De inuentione

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,

Hanne Roer
President, International Society for the History of Rhetoric