Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Fellows’ Elections for 2013 have added five new Fellows and three new Corresponding Fellows to the roster of scholars who have made notable contributions to furthering the stated purposes of the Academy, which are “to conduct, encourage, promote and … Continue reading →

The MAA elections closed on 15 January 2013. Almost 25 percent of the membership voted in the election, up 15% from last year and well above the average for learned society participation. Thank you! The ballots will be presented at … Continue reading →

  Occupy the Middle Ages   Maryanne Kowaleski      Peasants — a catch-all term for rural dwellers who made their living by farming land or raising livestock — represented about 80 to 90 percent of the population during the … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →