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. One in the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Competition: Tekla Bude … Continue reading →

At the Fellows Business Meeting at the 2012 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, on the recommendation of the Fellows Nominating Committee, the Fellows assembled voted to move the deadline for nominations to 15 October to give the committee additional time … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, July 10th at 7:30 pm, Dr. Alan Stahl (Princeton University) will be presenting the annual Medieval Academy of America Lecture at Leeds and speaking on “The Mediterranean Melting Pot: Crosscurrents in Medieval Coinage.” Dr. Stahl is the curator … Continue reading →

Ten titles from the Medieval Academy Books series are now available through amazon.com and its print-on-demand program. To find these books you can use the advanced search option, search by publisher “Medieval Academy of America” and sort the results by … Continue reading →

In honor of Jacqueline Brown’s many years of distinguished service to the Medieval Academy of America, President Emerita Caroline Bynum has made a generous contribution with the hope that it will challenge others who have come to know Jackie over … Continue reading →

The campus of Carol Woods is located in the northern part of Chapel Hill, NC, amidst rolling hills with forests of pine trees, oaks, and dogwoods. On a 120-acre site, formerly part of the Weaver Dairy Farm, Carol Woods is … Continue reading →

At the end of 2011 the Medieval Academy officially completed the terms of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and published online thirty-eight electronic versions of previously published Medieval Academy books. These works are available as searchable … Continue reading →

Under warm and sunny skies the Medieval Academy met for its 87th Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri from 22-24 March 2012. The meeting was a busy and energetic gathering and offered fifty sessions, approximately 380 registered attendants, three plenary … Continue reading →

The 2012 Haskins Medal was presented to Richard William Pfaff for his magnum opus, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). The committee wrote that this work “represents the sum of a life’s work dedicated … Continue reading →

Two medievalists are among the nine recipients of the ACLS 2012 Digital Innovation Fellowships. Margot Fassler (Professor, Theology and Music, University of Notre Dame) will create a digitized, sounding model of Hildegard of Bingen’s conception of the cosmos, employing the … Continue reading →