MAA News – MAA Election Results

Golden Haggadah, Spain. c. 1320, British Library, Add. MS 27210, f. 15r, detail.

Golden Haggadah, Spain. c. 1320, British Library, Add. MS 27210, f. 15r, detail.

The MAA elections closed on 15 January 2013. Almost 25 percent of the membership voted in the election, up 15% from last year and well above the average for learned society participation. Thank you!

The ballots will be presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Medieval Academy in Knoxville on Friday, 5 April at 1:00 PM in Hilton Knoxville Ballroom on the Mezzanine Level.

The newly elected Officers are:
President: Richard W. Unger (History, University of British Columbia)
First Vice-President: William Chester Jordan (History, Princeton University)
Second Vice-President: Barbara Newman (English, Northwestern University)

The new Councillors are:
Susan Einbinder (Literature, University of Connecticut)
Thomas Madden (History, St. Louis University)
Elizabeth Morrison (Manuscript Studies, Getty Museum)
Anders Winroth (History, Yale University)

The new members of the Nominating Committee are:
Scott Bruce (History, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Ken Pennington (History, Catholic University)

The members of the Medieval Academy congratulate their new officers and councillors, who will begin their terms at the close of the 2013 Annual Meeting, and the new members of the Nominating Committee, who will begin their terms at their meeting during the 2013 Annual Meeting.

The members also extend thanks to all those who generously stood for election.

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