ASIMS is pleased to announce that the 2020 winner of the Terry Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies is Kate Colbert for her paper “Exploring Relic na nAingel: Relics, Sculpture and Ecclesiastical Power at Clonmore,” which she delivered at a NUI symposium in Dublin. This paper is part of her doctoral dissertation research.

Ms. Colbert earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the College of Charleston in 2005, and her master’s in archaeological excavation from University College Cork (UCC) in 2014. Currently, she is in the final stages of submitting her doctoral thesis at UCC, titled “Early Medieval Sculpture in Southeast Ireland: Identities, Landscape and Memory.” Using the southeast of Ireland as a case study, this work investigates early medieval (c. AD 400–1200) sculpted stones as commemorative technologies and agents of cultural transmission.