Lauren Cherneski, Ancient and Medieval Studies major, will begin attending the University of Exeter in England in the fall in order to pursue a master’s degree in Medieval Studies. She received a partial-tuition fellowship from Exeter’s Centre for Medieval Studies in recognition of her outstanding undergraduate research on gender in the Middle Ages.

At Exeter, Lauren will be studying paleography and medieval history as well as doing original research for a thesis in medieval history, focusing on crimes of sexual assault in the late 14thcentury England. She is particularly interested in medieval social history, and hopes to do more with that. She intends to continue on to get a P.h.D in history and hopes one day to be a professor of medieval history. Her thesis at Loyola was on Anglo-Saxon Women and their legal rights in the Early Medieval period.