Class of: 2006

Melissa Vise

Melissa Vise (CAS’06) of Chicago, Ill., was selected as one of 22 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2014 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Melissa is a PhD candidate in history at Northwestern University. Her dissertation, The Threat of the Tongue: Illicit Speech in Late Medieval Italy, 1250-1450, uncovers the origins and development of speech regulation in medieval Europe.

From the Fall 2014 issue.