<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px;text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;box-sizing:inherit">Marie Kelleher passed away, tragically, on Monday, May 6th.</div></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px;text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;box-sizing:inherit">Marie's indefatigable spirit, boundless energy, and willingness to give and collaborate were legendary among friends and colleagues throughout the Anglo-American world as well as within her adoptive home of Barcelona and Catalonia where she spent most every <span fr-original-style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit;" style="text-decoration:none;margin:0px;text-align:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;box-sizing:inherit"><a style="color:rgb(56, 88, 152);cursor:pointer;text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit;-webkit-user-select:auto;box-sizing:inherit"></a></span>summer exploring archives, taking pictures, savoring good coffee and vegetarian eateries, practicing Catalan, relaxing in the company of friends, and loving life in general. </div></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px;text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;box-sizing:inherit">After receiving her PhD from Kansas under the tutelage of her beloved advisor, Jim Brundage, Marie developed an internationally recognized expertise in a wide assortment of subfields, with major award-winning publications on the history of women and gender, legal history, the study of food crises, and urban history, just to mention a few. Her much awaited monograph on fourteenth-century Barcelona, the product of over a decade of tireless work, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. Even as she confronted what appeared to be a long battle ahead with cancer, Marie never lost her optimism and zest for scholarship. She couldn't wait to see this second book come out or to start work on a new micro-historical trade book project she had been envisioning for years. </div></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px;text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;box-sizing:inherit">As a wildly popular and endlessly giving teacher and mentor of undergraduates and MA students at Cal-State Long Beach for over twenty years, Marie was constantly scheming about how to craft new, ever more engaging learning experiences that would inspire the young people in her classrooms. As a board member of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS), she has been a powerful creative force, with endless ideas about how to improve the organization's ability to serve its members and enrich scholarship and teaching in the field.</div></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;overflow-wrap:break-word;font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;.SFNSText-Regular&quot;, sans-serif;caret-color:rgb(5, 5, 5);color:rgb(5, 5, 5);font-size:15px;text-align:left;box-sizing:inherit"><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;box-sizing:inherit">Her death leaves a huge void in the field and a tremendous sense of emptiness and sadness among those who knew her, admired her, and were inspired by her pathbreaking research and teaching. We will deeply miss her laughs, quirkiness, unstoppable curiosity, and compassion. </div><p style="box-sizing:inherit"><em>AARHMS is coordinating an effort to memorialize Marie's incalculable contributions as a teacher and researcher by raising an endowment for an annual scholarly award in her name to support excellence research and writing in her favorite subfields. Thanks to the tremendous generosity of a growing group of colleagues and friends throughout the world, we have already received commitments of over $12,000 to endow this award. Please help us increase the size of this endowment by participating in this campaign. Since AARHMS is a non-profit organization, your gift is 100% tax-deductible (for US-based donors). </em></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">We would like to recognize the following growing list of donors who have already contributed to this initiative: Abigail Agresta, Linda Alkana, Susan Amussen, Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Tom Barton, Pere Benito, Judith Bennett, Janna Bianchini, Lisa Bitel, Debra Blumenthal, Nancy Caciola, Josep Capdeferro, Brian Catlos, Bridget Collins, Devon DeRouen, Elizabeth Comuzzi, Esther Cuenca, Sarah Davis-Secord, David Dewar, Rowan Dorin, Simon Doubleday, Daniel Duran i Duelt, Theresa Earenfight, Paul Freedman, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Valerie Garver, Piotr Górecki and Renata Dylewska, Jasonne Grabher, Sarah Crary Gregory, Fiona Griffiths, Alice K. Harris, Michelle Herder, Lois Huneycutt, Richard Ibarra, Maya Soifer Irish, Sherri Johnson, Deeana Klepper, Adam Kosto, Kathy Krause, William Jordan, Matthew Lavine, Jim Leiker, Meg Leja, Anne Lester and Scott Bruce, Kyle Lincoln, Therese Martin, Joel Mathis and Jocelyn Craft Mathis, Larry McCrank, Sara McDougall, Eileen McKiernan, Barbara and Gordon Murdock, Caitlin Murdock, Alex Novikoff, Meriem Pages, Pamela Patton, Alison Perchuk, Birte Pfleger, Lucy Pick, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Jennifer Pruitt, Yona Rudolph, Teo Ruiz and Scarlett Freund, Mike Ryan, Miriam Shadis, Clare Shawcross, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Larry Simon, Jerry Singerman, Dan Smail, Emily Tai, Paola Tartakoff, Jennifer Thibodeaux, Francesca Trivellato, Susan and Carl Tsuji, Katja Vehlow, Jesús Velasco, Rachel Welsh, Dana Wessel Lightfoot, Burt Westermeier, Anne Marie Wolf, Antonio Zaldívar. We are updating this list as further donations come in. Thank you!!</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">(Photo generously provided by Scarlett Freund.)</p></div>

<p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Dear <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name</span> <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;-webkit-user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name</span>,</p><p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><br /></p><p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">Thank you so much for your incredibly generous gift, which will enable us to honor Marie and her life work as a teacher and researcher. We will keep you posted as we unveil this award.</p><p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><br />Tom Barton and the Executive Board on behalf of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain</p><p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit"><br /></p><p style="width:100%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:inherit">barton@sandiego.edu</p>

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<div><div>Marie Kelleher passed away, tragically, on Monday, May 6th.</div></div><div><div>Marie's indefatigable spirit, boundless energy, and willingness to give and collaborate were legendary among friends and colleagues throughout the Anglo-American world as well as within her adoptive home of Barcelona and Catalonia where she spent most every <span><a></a></span>summer exploring archives, taking pictures, savoring good coffee and vegetarian eateries, practicing Catalan, relaxing in the company of friends, and loving life in general. </div></div><div><div>After receiving her PhD from Kansas under the tutelage of her beloved advisor, Jim Brundage, Marie developed an internationally recognized expertise in a wide assortment of subfields, with major award-winning publications on the history of women and gender, legal history, the study of food crises, and urban history, just to mention a few. Her much awaited monograph on fourteenth-century Barcelona, the product of over a decade of tireless work, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. Even as she confronted what appeared to be a long battle ahead with cancer, Marie never lost her optimism and zest for scholarship. She couldn't wait to see this second book come out or to start work on a new micro-historical trade book project she had been envisioning for years. </div></div><div><div>As a wildly popular and endlessly giving teacher and mentor of undergraduates and MA students at Cal-State Long Beach for over twenty years, Marie was constantly scheming about how to craft new, ever more engaging learning experiences that would inspire the young people in her classrooms. As a board member of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS), she has been a powerful creative force, with endless ideas about how to improve the organization's ability to serve its members and enrich scholarship and teaching in the field.</div></div><div><div>Her death leaves a huge void in the field and a tremendous sense of emptiness and sadness among those who knew her, admired her, and were inspired by her pathbreaking research and teaching. We will deeply miss her laughs, quirkiness, unstoppable curiosity, and compassion. </div><p style="box-sizing:inherit"><em>AARHMS is coordinating an effort to memorialize Marie's incalculable contributions as a teacher and researcher by raising an endowment for an annual scholarly award in her name to support excellence research and writing in her favorite subfields. Thanks to the tremendous generosity of a growing group of colleagues and friends throughout the world, we have already received commitments of over $12,000 to endow this award. Please help us increase the size of this endowment by participating in this campaign. Since AARHMS is a non-profit organization, your gift is 100% tax-deductible (for US-based donors). </em></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">We would like to recognize the following growing list of donors who have already contributed to this initiative: Abigail Agresta, Linda Alkana, Susan Amussen, Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Tom Barton, Pere Benito, Judith Bennett, Janna Bianchini, Lisa Bitel, Debra Blumenthal, Nancy Caciola, Josep Capdeferro, Brian Catlos, Bridget Collins, Devon DeRouen, Elizabeth Comuzzi, Esther Cuenca, Sarah Davis-Secord, David Dewar, Rowan Dorin, Simon Doubleday, Daniel Duran i Duelt, Theresa Earenfight, Paul Freedman, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Valerie Garver, Piotr Górecki and Renata Dylewska, Jasonne Grabher, Sarah Crary Gregory, Fiona Griffiths, Alice K. Harris, Michelle Herder, Lois Huneycutt, Richard Ibarra, Maya Soifer Irish, Sherri Johnson, Deeana Klepper, Adam Kosto, Kathy Krause, William Jordan, Matthew Lavine, Jim Leiker, Meg Leja, Anne Lester and Scott Bruce, Kyle Lincoln, Therese Martin, Joel Mathis and Jocelyn Craft Mathis, Larry McCrank, Sara McDougall, Eileen McKiernan, Barbara and Gordon Murdock, Caitlin Murdock, Alex Novikoff, Meriem Pages, Pamela Patton, Alison Perchuk, Birte Pfleger, Lucy Pick, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Jennifer Pruitt, Yona Rudolph, Teo Ruiz and Scarlett Freund, Mike Ryan, Miriam Shadis, Clare Shawcross, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Larry Simon, Jerry Singerman, Dan Smail, Emily Tai, Paola Tartakoff, Jennifer Thibodeaux, Francesca Trivellato, Susan and Carl Tsuji, Katja Vehlow, Jesús Velasco, Rachel Welsh, Dana Wessel Lightfoot, Burt Westermeier, Anne Marie Wolf, Antonio Zaldívar. We are updating this list as further donations come in. Thank you!!</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">(Photo generously provided by Scarlett Freund.)</p></div>

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