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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 →

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 … Continue reading →

MAA Dissertation Grants (deadline 15 February): The nine annual Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants support advanced graduate students who are writing Ph.D. dissertations on medieval topics. The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses. Click here for more information. Schallek Awards (deadline … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2018-2020 Baldwin Fellowship has been awarded to Juliana Amorim Goskes (New York University), “Sharing the Throne: The Queen’s Body, Representation, and Performance (France, 1223-1435).” The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2018 – 2019 Schallek Fellowship has been awarded to Lindsey McNellis (West Virginia University), “Vi et Armis: Violence and Injury before the Common Pleas.” The Schallek Fellowship provides … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy supports conference travel for unaffiliated or contingent scholars through our Travel Grant program. MAA Travel Grants are funded by donations to the Medieval Academy of America Travel Fund. The most recent awardees are: Christine Axen, “Relocating the … Continue reading →

The 2018 Elliott Prize has been awarded to Alison Locke Perchuk (California State University Channel Islands) for her article, “Schismatic (Re)Visions: Sant’Elia near Nepi and Sta. Maria in Trastevere in Rome, 1120-1143,” Gesta 55 (2016), 179-212. The Elliott Prize is awarded … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for panels at the 2018 meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, on January 3-6, 2019. The theme of the 2018 Meeting is “Loyalties.” Each year the Medieval Academy co-sponsors with the … Continue reading →

In December, the Modern Language Association announced that it was awarding the Scaglione Publication Award to University of Notre Dame Press to support the publication of Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text by Sarah McNamer (Georgetown … Continue reading →