Author Archives: Chris

As I announced at our Notre Dame meeting, I will use my bully pulpit as president to focus on K-12 outreach, especially secondary teaching. I had paid little attention to high school curricula until my niece and granddaughter, who were … Continue reading →

The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo was boisterous as always, and the Medieval Academy was an active participant. Cary J. Nederman’s MAA plenary was well-attended and -received, as were the associated sessions on the theme of Tolerance … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds this year, please join the Medieval Academy on Tuesday evening (7 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Sara Lipton (SUNY – … Continue reading →

The inaugural MAA/GSC Grants in Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization have been awarded to three collaborative projects: “English Manuscript Rolls 1200-1600: A Collaborative Digitization Project” (Anya Adair, Yale University; Katherine Hindley, Yale University; Jessica Henderson, Univ. of Toronto; Micah … Continue reading →

This is the first year that the Academy has offered support to an expanded group of summer programs, and we are pleased to announce that scholarships to support summer coursework in languages or paleography have been awarded to: Casey Ireland … Continue reading →

Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Columbia Univ.), who will be President of the Medieval Academy in 2016-17, was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Medieval and Renaissance History to support her work on a critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis. Former Academy … Continue reading →

Thirty-seven out-of-print volumes of Medieval Academy Books, digitized several years ago as part of an NEH-funded project and available as PDFs on our website, are now also retrievable by searching the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance. Among other goals, MESA “aggregates … Continue reading →