Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

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 →

CARA, the MAA’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, recognizes distinction among medievalists with two awards annually. The first is the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies. This award of $1000 is presented at the Annual … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy seeks contributions to fund a Dissertation Grant in memory of John Boswell. Boswell, the medieval historian who taught at Yale University from 1975 until his death in 1994 at age 47, was a pioneer in two fields … Continue reading →

The 2012 CARA Annual Meeting took place at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 4-6 October. The committee meeting was coordinated by Chair James Murray (Western Michigan University). Committee members present included Robert E. Bjork (Arizona State University), Richard Firth … Continue reading →

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place April 4-6 and will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. It will be … Continue reading →

One of the major features of the new MAA website is its Members section, which now provides a robust, up-to-date membership directory. This MAA Members Directory is available to all members of the Medieval Academy, but you need to be … 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 2012 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America was awarded to MAA member Elizabeth Eva Leach for Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).