Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

Members are invited to submit nominations to the Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy. The 2014 election operates under new and revised by-laws and procedures. Under the established rules, the number of slots available in 2014 for new … Continue reading →

Thanks to the generosity of our members, the $10,000 matching challenge offered by the Freeman Foundation has been successfully met, fully funding the Boswell Dissertation Fund and allowing us to award the grant annually beginning in 2014. The Boswell Dissertation … Continue reading →

The Academy encourages its members to apply for grants and residential fellowships in these and other programs: The American Academy in Rome The American Philosophical Society Getty Research Fellowships Guggenheim Foundation Institute for Advanced Studies Mellon Foundation National Endowment for … Continue reading →

Additional grants and awards for medievalists have recently been announced. These include: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships: Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “The Dominicans, Islam, and Christian Thought, 1220-1320” Adam Davis, Denison University “The Rise of the Medieval … Continue reading →

We have revamped our publications page to enable members and visitors to easily see which of the more than 150 books published by the Academy are available for purchase and in what format(s): – Forty volumes are available as print-on-demand … Continue reading →

Speculum, published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. It remains the premier journal for all fields devoted to study of the Western Middle Ages, a period ranging from approximately … Continue reading →

Click here to see what the Medieval Academy’s Graduate Student Committee has been up to, and feel free to forward the link to any grad students in your department or program who might not know about all the Academy and … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America has long provided a variety of benefits of membership, including numerous fellowships, prizes and grants for travel, research and publications. Please see the list below with their deadlines, then follow the links for complete descriptions … Continue reading →

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 →