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The Medieval Academy of America seeks to appoint an Editor for Speculum.  The position is configured as part-time, requiring around 25 hours per week. The Editor is appointed for an expected five-year term, subject to acceptable yearly performance reviews, with … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships, supporting student participation in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies: Stacie Leigh Beach(University of Tennessee, Knoxville), studying epigraphy at the American Academy in Rome; … Continue reading →

The Schallek Awards, given in collaboration with the Richard III Society – American Branch, support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). A clerical error led to the notification of six Schallek … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy supports conference travel for unaffiliated or contingent scholars through our Travel Grant program, funded by donations to the Medieval Academy of America Travel Fund. We are very pleased to support conference travel for these recent awardees: Kyle … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce  that the 2018 Medieval Academy Publication Subvention has been awarded to Rena Lauer (Oregon State University) to support the publication of her forthcoming monograph, Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete (Philadelphia: University of … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce the establishment of the Belle Da Costa Greene Fund. Belle Da Costa Greene (1883-1950) was a prominent art historian and the first manuscript librarian of the Pierpont Morgan collection. She … Continue reading →

What’s happening on campus? The Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) wants to know! Please send a report about this year’s medieval studies programming in your department, regional association, or center to the Medieval Academy of America. We will … Continue reading →

Amiri Ayanna (Brown University) and Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick) have each been awarded an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship. If you have good news to share, please contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (LFD@themedievalacademy.org)