Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

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 →

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Nathan Melson of Fordham University has been awarded the Medieval Academy’s 2012 Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History. His dissertation, which he is writing under the direction of Dr. Richard Gyug, is entitled, “Franciscan Identity and Saintly Economy in … Continue reading →

Membership coordinator, Chris Cole, has been migrating the current MAA website onto the more robust and dynamic platform of an association management system, as previously recommended by the Digital Initiatives Advisory Board. This work began in early January using the … Continue reading →

The 87th Annual Meetingof the Medieval Academy will take place this week from 22-24 March, Thursday to Saturday, in St. Louis at St. Louis University. Registration is strong and is expected to top 350. Plenary speakers will include Caroline Bruzelius … Continue reading →

As I prepare to step down from my presidency of the Medieval Academy at the annual meeting in St. Louis, I look back on an eventful year of transition in the Cambridge offices. I can report with confidence that under … Continue reading →