Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

To the members of the Medieval Academy of America: I am very pleased to announce the results of the 2020 governance election, which closed at 11:59 PM on Jan. 2: President: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French & Italian, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Emerita)) 1st … Continue reading →

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place at the University of California, Berkeley from 26-28 March 2020. The program, registration, and hotel information are available here. Register by February 21 to take advantage of the early-bird discount, … Continue reading →

The latest issue of Speculum is now available on the University of Chicago Press Journals website. To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the MAA website using your username and password associated with your membership (contact us at info@themedievalacademy.org  if you have forgotten either), … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for panels at the 2021 meeting of the American Historical Association in Seattle, January 7-10. Each year the Medieval Academy co-sponsors with the AHA several sessions at this meeting that are likely to … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2020-2021 Schallek Fellowship has been awarded to Julia Mattison (Univ. of Toronto), “C’est livre est a moy: French Books and English Readers in Fifteenth-Century England .” The Schallek … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2020-2022 Baldwin Fellowship has been awarded to Leland Grigoli (Brown Univ.), “Colonial Technologies in the Medieval Monastery: The Cistercian Order and the Centralization of Power in Champagne, Occitania, … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce that the following Travel Grants have recently been awarded: Travis Baker, “Was Paucapalea Married?” (16th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, 19-25 July 2020, St. Louis, MO); Emma O’Loughlin Bérat, “‘Upon the ground…was born’: Outdoor … Continue reading →

The 2020 MAA/CARA Conference Grant has been awarded to the Texas Medieval Association Annual Conference, October 2-4, 2020, sponsored by the Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) and directed by Kathryne Elizabeth Beebe. The annual MAA/CARA Conference Grant supports regional or consortial … Continue reading →

Belle Da Costa Greene Award (deadline 15 February) Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural Belle Da Costa Greene Award supporting research by medievalists of color. The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to … Continue reading →

Are you interested in attending the 2020 MAA Annual Meeting but need some financial assistance to get to Berkeley? Thanks to the generosity of the Graduate Student Committee, which has opted to re-allocate a portion of its annual budget towards this program, … Continue reading →