Tory Schendel-Vyvoda

Presentation: "How Medieval-ism Are They Really? Examining Feminist Spirituality Through Visual Aids" for the panel Studio and Art History > Mega Fans and Myth Busters: Creating Pathways from Popular Visual Culture to the Past in the Art/History Classroom, Session I at the SECAC conference from October 22-25, 2025.

Participant for the panel "Mysticism and the Twenty-First Century (A Roundtable)" and co-organizer for "Deconstructing Viking Bodies" as well as "The Natural World in Medieval Thought (2): Insects, Animals, Birds." Panel chair for the session "Kzoo at 60 and the Lone Medievalist Conference Experience (A Roundtable)" at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI, from May 8 to 10, 2025. 

Article "Is There Hope? Emancipation Philosophy through Plurality & Cosmology" published in the Open Journal for Studies in Philosophy 9(1):45-50, July 2025

Medieval Academy of America Kalamazoo Program Committee Member appointed on June 1, 2025

Co-presenter for the conference session “Honoring the Past: Building a Collaborative Future” for the 2025 Midwest SoTL Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference at Indiana University, South Bend, Indiana, on April 11, 2025.

Celebration of Leadership (COL) award winner for the "Individual" division of the "Arts and Culture" category. This annual award, facilitated by Leadership Everyone, a City of Evansville entity, publicly seeks out and honors individuals, projects, programs, businesses, and organizations that make significant, collaborative contributions to improve and transform the community in the Evansville region.

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Presentation: "Mental Health & Student Equity: Building a Collaborative Future" for the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium at the University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana.

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Guest lecturer at the Student Veterans Association, presenting on Evansville African American Military History with artifacts from the Evansville African American Museum. Presentation: University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, on 2/6/2025

Conference Panel Participant and Chair for the webinar "Doing Medieval Together: Building Community in Nontraditional Venues" for the Medieval Academy in partnership with CARA on February 10, 2025.

Student Research Grant Awardee from the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)

Tory Schendel-Vyvoda and Megan Hagseth's documentary, "Female Mystic Art: Hildegard Von Bingen" was awarded the Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarly Outreach and was selected as a Medieval Open Access Resource Sweet Sixteen by Princeton University.

Publication "A Tiny Box, Big Dreams: The Lamasco Microgallery as a Nontraditional Venue for Art & Community Engagement" at the 2024 SECAC conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Conference Presentation: “New Series by Berghahn: Explanations in the Social Sciences” at the 95th Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference.

Presentation: “New Series by Berghahn: Explanations in the Social Sciences” at the 95th Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference.

Conference Panelist for "Navigating Identity: Challenges and Opportunities in Using Terminology for Cultural Groups in Cultural Institutions" at the annual Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) Conference held in Chicago, Illinois, 2024.

Invited by "Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art" to participate in the "Introductions to the Middle Ages Through Medievalism: Special Issue." Her article (working title), "A Reflective Journey: Connections to Medievalism & the Middle Ages" will be included in the Q1 2025 open-access publication.

Co-authoring "Prejudice: Conflict and Human Nature" by Berghahn Books. The manuscript is due December 31, 2024, with anticipated availability by the end of 2025.

The publication "Feminist Perspectivism in Schuermann’s Medieval Latin Epoch" is published in the summer edition of "Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History."

The article "Feminist Perspectivism in Schuermann’s Medieval Latin Epoch," will be published by "Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History." Summer 2024.

Group exhibition "Art in the City" at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana

The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana 2024 Art Awards & Artist in exhibition "Empowered"

Roundtable participant for the sessions Building and Growing Medieval Studies: Creating Communities of Passion Beyond the Classroom, Digital Humanities without a Budget, and Maken vertu of necessitee: Teaching Medieval and What Else? at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 9-11, 2024.

Presentation: “Optics and Visio Dei: Interpretations of Female Mystic Art” at the 99th Medieval Academy of America conference at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, on March 14-16, 2024.

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Her artwork “Line Drawing” is on display at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana until March 1, 2024, and “The Metamorphosis of the Child” will be displayed at The Studio Alchemy Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 5, 2024.

Recipient of the the Indiana University Liberal Arts Career Achievement Award.