Ryan Supplee Recieves 2026-2027 Undergraduate Research Award URA project focuses on "Conceptualizing the Medieval Cyborg"

Congratulations to Math and English major Ryan Supplee on receiving a $1,000 Undergraduate Research Award (URA) for his research project, “Reverent Ableism: Conceptualizing the Medieval Cyborg." His mentor is Professor McKinley.

Supplee previously received a 2025-2026 URA for "Medieval Moralization, Dehumanization, and Demonization of the Disabled Body in Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer" and presented at URCAD in spring 2026, both with Professor McKinley as mentor.

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