Daily Archives: February 25, 2013

NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

Deadline, 5 March 2013. The MAA urges medievalists to consider applying for grants to sponsor NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes. The next competition will award grants for the Summer of 2014. These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities … Continue reading

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Award Deadlines

Schallek Awards The Medieval Academy will make five Schallek Awards in 2013 to support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (c.1350-1500). The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses, such as the cost of … Continue reading

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MAA Award Winners

Schallek Fellowship Deirdre Carter of the Florida State University will receive the 2013 Schallek Fellowship. She is working under Richard K. Emmerson and Paula Gerson on “Art, History and the Creation of Monastic Identity in Late Medieval St. Albans Abbey.” … Continue reading

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Mellon Grant to Yale Medievalists Supports Digital Manuscript Research

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently announced a grant of $650,000 to Yale University that will allow four of its medievalists and two principal investigators (four MAA members in all) to apply the newest digital technology to various aspects of … Continue reading

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John Boswell Fund Matching Grant

The Freeman Foundation and its founder Weston Milliken have generously offered a $10,000 matching grant to the MAA to enable the Academy to award the John Boswell Dissertation Grant annually. To receive these funds, the MAA will need to raise … Continue reading

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Annual Meeting Registration Is Open

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place April 4-6 in Knoxville, Tennessee and will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. … Continue reading

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Speculum Goes Digital for Members

As we reported in the December News, as a new benefit to MAA members, the first 25 book reviews from Speculum volume 88.1 (January 2013), will be soon available online. The second group of reviews will be released a few … Continue reading

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Conferences – Plantations Amidst Savagery

In 1113 David youngest son of St Margaret of Scotland founded a colony from St Bernard of Abbeville’s abbey of Thiron-Gardais at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.  This community was the first of any of the reformed Benedictine or Augustinian … Continue reading

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2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program core competition is now open. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and … Continue reading

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Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies

Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) announces the establishment of the Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies, to be awarded annually for study beginning July 1, 2013. The Fellowship was established … Continue reading

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