Jobs For Medievalists

Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a Focus on Western Europe and/or its Empires

Position Description: The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires (period specialization open). Preference will be given to candidates with experience in Applied History/Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will be expected to teach survey courses in Western/world civilizations and specialized undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of Science & Technology, to direct graduate theses and serve on graduate committees, and to participate actively in departmental programs, service, and governance. This position is part of a cluster hire in the History of Science & Technology.

Required Qualifications: A PhD in History or a related field (e.g., History of Science and Technology or European Studies) is required by the time of appointment. Candidates must demonstrate an active research agenda in the History of Science & Technology with a focus on Western Europe and/or its empires.

Preferred Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with experience in Applied History/Digital Humanities and to those who demonstrate an active research agenda with a scholarship record that complements the existing strengths of the History Department.

Application Procedures: Appointment date August 16, 2026. Salary is commensurate with experience. To guarantee full consideration, application materials must be received by October 1, 2025. Only applications submitted for this specific posting through the Texas State University website will be accepted and considered: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53035

A complete application includes:

  • A cover letter
  • A CV
  • Unofficial graduate transcripts
  • A writing sample
  • A sample syllabus for an upper-division undergraduate course in the History of Science & Technology

As part of our application process, we are requesting contact information for three (3) academic references who can provide insight into your skills and experiences. Please include the names and email addresses for your references in the Reference Letter section of the employment application.

Proposed Start Date: August 16, 2026

Review Date: The search committee will begin reviewing applications on October 1, 2025. The position will be open until filled.

Quick Link: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53035

Job Posting Number: 2026007TTL

Required Documents:

  1. Cover Letter
  2. Curriculum Vitae
  3. Unofficial Transcripts (all in one document)
  4. Syllabi
  5. Writing Sample

Contact: Search Committee Chair, Dr. Joaquín Rivaya Martínez, jr59@txstate.edu

Website: https://www.txst.edu/history/news-events/job-opportunities.html

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MAA News – MAA @ Leeds

If you’re going to be at the Leeds International Medieval Congress this year, please join us on Tuesday, 8 July, 19.00-20.00 (Session 901) for the annual Medieval Academy Lecture, to be delivered by Xiaofei Tian (Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University), “The Margins of Knowing: A Place for the Extraordinary in an Ordinary World.” Afterwards, join Prof. Tian and MAA governance and staff members for the Medieval Academy’s open-bar wine reception.

The Medieval Academy’s Graduate Student Committee roundtable will take place Monday, 7 July, 19:00-20:00 (Session 021): “How to Conference.” Participants include Carrie Beneš (New College of Florida), Kathryn Gerry (Bowdoin University, Maine), Carolin Gluchowski (Universität Hamburg), Rebekkah Hart (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio), Natalie Hopwood (University of Leeds), Megan Renz Perry (Yale University), and Liene Rokpelne (Latvijas Universitāte, Rīga / Valmieras muzejs).

We hope to see you there!

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MAA News – Upcoming Webinar

Thinking Queerly: South Asia and the Question of Prehistory
July 29th, 10am EDT

We are very pleased to announce a series of webinars honoring the winners of the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Grants and Prizes: Mohamad Ballan (Article Prize in Critical Race Studies), Kartik Maini (Belle da Costa Greene Prize), Greg Carrier (Inclusivity & Diversity Research Grant) and Tirumular Narayanan (Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant). These webinars will be hosted by the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Committee and are made possible by an Intention Foundry Learned Society Extended Engagement Microgrant from the American Council of Learned Societies.

The Inclusivity and Diversity Committee is proud to present the work of our annual prize winners. Please join us on Tuesday, July 29 at 10:00 am EST for an interactive webinar discussion with Kartik Maini, winner of The Belle Da Costa Greene Award. Named after the first manuscript librarian of the Pierpont Morgan collection, the first known person of color, and second woman to be elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, this travel award supports graduate students, emerging junior scholars, adjunct, and unaffiliated scholars. Kartik will present a talk on their scholarship titled, “Thinking Queerly: South Asia and the Question of Prehistory,” followed by a brief discussion led by I&D committee chair, Rachael Vause. The floor will then open to questions for our esteemed prize winner. We hope you will join us!

Click here to register.

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MAA News – Centennial Spotlight

Every month, we’ll be spotlighting two MAA Centennial Grant Projects. These twenty-one projects span the continent and reflect some of the best that Medieval Studies has to offer. We are so pleased to be able to support these symposia, performances, and digital initiatives as part of our Centennial celebrations.

Virtual Medieval Books in the Schools, University of Minnesota (PI: Michelle Hamilton). With this funding, the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities will be able to continue development of online resources to complement their in-person K-12 classroom presentations on the history of the book in the Middle Ages. The Medieval Book in the Schools classroom program has been running successfully for almost twenty years (initiated by Professor Susan Noakes in 2005). Primarily a program for elementary school students, program has recently expanded to include high school and undergraduate students. The MAA is pleased to be able to support this important programming.

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CSANA Virtual Summer Workshop

Putting Celtic into your Medieval Literature Survey

This two-day online workshop offers a tutorial in integrating medieval Irish and Welsh sources into a typical British Literature survey course for undergraduates. We will discuss the value of a broadly “insular” approach to the British Lit survey, offer ideas for combinations of Celtic and English texts and potential approaches to teaching them, and workshop participants’ course materials in a friendly forum for further discussion.

This workshop is free, though space is limited. It will be held on July 16 and July 17 at 10:30 EDT to 1:30 EDT. Please register here.

Georgia Henley is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Anselm College and an Associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard. Her first book, Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Joey McMullen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research broadly considers the role of landscape and the natural world in the literature of the medieval North Atlantic, especially that of Ireland, England, and Wales.

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Symposium – Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women

A symposium of new research on nuns, beguines, recluses, and other sisters.

DATE: 14-15 July 2025

HOSTED BY: Notre Dame Rome and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame.

ORGANIZERS: CJ Jones and Kristina Kummerer.

MODE: Hybrid. In-person at Notre Dame Rome (Via Ostilia, 15 – 00184, Roma, Italy). Virtual attendance through Zoom.

DESCRIPTION:

The last decade has witnessed an explosion of scholarship on religious and semi-religious women’s participation in the liturgy of the medieval Catholic church. Recent studies have cast new light on women’s direct participation in liturgical action, as well as their production and care of liturgical art, textiles, and books. Liturgical references in mystical literature and hagiography reveal how embodied practice fostered women’s access to the divine, and a broader interest in prayer practice expands study of women’s rituals beyond the bounds of the liturgical, narrowly defined. Lay women, tertiaries, and professed lay sisters all engaged in ritual devotions, both communal and private, albeit differently than enclosed nuns.

Thirteen international scholars across disciplines – history, musicology, liturgy, theology, and literature – will present new research on the ritual cultures of medieval religious women in Europe, defining both “ritual” and “religious” in broad terms to include the communal and individual ritual practices of enclosed nuns, beguines, tertiaries, anchoresses, and the communities with whom they interacted.

Both virtual and in-person participation is possible. Registration for all attendees is required, but free. For more information or to register, please visit the event webpage. The last day to register for in-person attendance is 7 July 2025.

Please email Kristina Kummerer (kkummere@nd.edu) with any questions or technological difficulties.

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Call for Papers – The New College Conference is back!

After a hiatus in 2024, the twenty-third biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 5–7 March 2026 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Planned sessions are welcome, and interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. The deadline for all abstracts is 1 October 2025; for submission guidelines or to submit an abstract, please go to http://www.newcollegeconference.org/cfp.

Junior scholars whose abstracts are accepted are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the Snyder Prize (named in honor of conference founder Lee Snyder), which carries an honorarium of $400. Further details are available at the conference website.

The Conference is held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, food, art and music. Average temperatures in March are a

pleasant high of 77f (25c) and a low of 57f (14c). More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions. Please send any inquiries to

info@newcollegeconference.org.

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Upcoming MAA Webinar

Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khat ̣ īb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada

June 23rd, 12pm EDT

We are very pleased to announce a series of webinars honoring the winners of the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Grants and Prizes: Mohamad Ballan (Article Prize in Critical Race Studies), Kartik Maini (Belle da Costa Greene Prize), Greg Carrier (Inclusivity & Diversity Research Grant) and Tirumular Narayanan (Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant). These webinars will be hosted by the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity Committee and are made possible by an Intention Foundry Learned Society Extended Engagement Microgrant from the American Council of Learned Societies.

The Inclusivity and Diversity Committee is proud to present the work of the first of our annual prize winners. Please join us on Monday, June 23rd at 12:00pm EDT for an interactive webinar discussion with Mohamad Ballan, winner of the Article Prize in Critical Race Studies. Mohamad will discuss his article, “Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khat ̣ īb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada,” published last April in Speculum, vol. 98, no. 2. I&D committee chair, Rachael Vause will discuss with Ballan his work to integrate the medieval Islamic world into discussions about race, racialization, and ethnicity in the Middle Ages, and then open the floor to questions for our esteemed prize winner. We hope you will join us!

Click here to register.

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Jobs For Medievalists

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for our 2026-27 fellowship cycle for researchers whose projects would benefit from intensive on-site engagement with Yale Library Special Collections materials. Our fellowships are open to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars locally and globally who utilize traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research as well as creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in the collections. 

Fellowships range from two weeks to four months in length, with awards in the amount of $5,000 per month. An additional stipend of $400 will be provided to successful international applicants to help defray the costs associated with a J-1 visa application.

Fellowship application procedures and requirements can be found on the Beinecke’s website:

If you have any questions regarding the fellowship program itself, please see our FAQ or contact Beinecke.Fellowships@yale.edu.  For all queries regarding our collections, please feel free to reach out to our colleagues in Reference at Beinecke.Library@yale.edu.

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MAA News – We’ve Moved!

As of June 1, you will find us in a different suite at the same street address:

Medieval Academy of America
6 Beacon St., Suite 225
Boston, Massachusetts 02108

This move to smaller space will result in significant budgetary savings that will allow us to increase support for Speculum staff and implement new programming. The office will be closed for business until Thursday, June 5, as we move in and set up phone, internet, and network services. We apologize for any disruption. As always, email is the best way to reach us: info@TheMedievalAcademy.org.

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