Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The MAA is delighted to announce an impressive collection of awards garnered by MAA members during the past fellowship season. The American Council of Learned Societies announced eleven MAA winners. Three in the Collaborative Research Fellowship competition: Heather Blurton (University … Continue reading →

In May 2013, as always, the Medieval Academy had a strong presence at the Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Several hundred people attended the Friday morning MAA plenary lecture by Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway College and the University of … Continue reading →

More than 350 Academy members attended the 88th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee from 4-6 April 2013. The wide-ranging program consisted of three plenary speakers (Christopher de Hamel, Maryanne Kowaleski, and Jan Ziolkowski), 176 papers in … Continue reading →

Big changes are afoot at the Medieval Academy office in Cambridge. As of 1 May, the business of the Academy is being tended to by Acting Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis, while Jacqueline Brown has returned to the office to … Continue reading →

Your membership in the Medieval Academy provides you with a growing list of benefits, ranging from the print and digital editions of Speculum, to our MAA News, Conference Calendar and Blog to book discounts and our annual meeting. As important, … Continue reading →

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 →

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides funding of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Applications for subventions will be accepted only from the publisher … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy is pleased to announce the revival of the Speculum Books series. As many will recall, this series is devoted to reprinting distinguished and influential articles from past issues of Speculum in paperback collections. The series aims to … Continue reading →

Now that the digital version of Speculum, including the entire archive dating back to 1926, is available free to all members of the Medieval Academy, several members have already requested that we discontinue sending them print Speculum. This saves paper, printing, … Continue reading →

Saint Louis University has received a grant of $933,000 over two years from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of software development of a tool for the editing of scholarly works. MAA member James Ginther, PhD, Director of the … Continue reading →