This week we’ll be featuring five winners of the 2012 Academic Minute Senior Superlatives.

Seton Hall University's William Connell captured the Listener Choice award with the discovery of a long-lost letter that explains the shifting political fortunes of Niccolo Machiavelli. Connell is Professor and La Motta Chair of History at Seton Hall, where he specializes in medieval and Renaissance intellectual history, humanism, and social history. Find out more about him here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.