The Phi Beta Kappa Society has chosen Ella Grunberger-Kirsh as the winner of the 2024 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship. The Fellowship comes with a stipend of $20,000. Established in 1934 by Isabelle Stone in honor of her mother, this fellowship recognizes exceptional young scholars in various humanistic fields. Ella plans to use the fellowship to adapt her dissertation into a book. Her project, “The Memory-Writers: a Social and Intellectual History of Shorthand in Late Antiquity,” tracks the development of shorthand as a cultural artifact from the fourth to the seventh centuries C. E. Her project weaves together this linguistic history of shorthand with an investigation of shorthand-writers in the institutional record and reveals how shorthand-writers were viewed by others and how lives spent toggling between symbols and alphabets influenced the way they imagined themselves and their society.