Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Schallek Fellowship The Schallek Fellowship provides … Continue reading →

Nancy L. Wicker (Univ. of Mississippi) has been awarded a Solmsen Fellowship to carry out research on Viking-Age art at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin for the academic year 2023–2024. Several MAA members … Continue reading →

In the wake of the extremely successful 2021 collaboration between the National Humanities Center and the Medieval Academy of America to design and launch an online curriculum-development course on “Medieval Africa and Africans“, we are very pleased to announce the … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the inaugural Fellows Research Awards. Supported entirely by donations from the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, the Fellows Fund will support two annual awards for members of the Medieval Academy who do … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Schallek Fellowship The Schallek Fellowship provides … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites submissions for the following prizes to be awarded at the 2024 MAA Annual Meeting. The Medieval Academy warmly encourages the nomination of publications written by scholars working beyond the tenure track as well as … Continue reading →

The next meeting of the Race & Gender Working Group will take place on Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12pm-1:30pm EST. Dr. Mohamad Ballan, Assistant Professor of History Stony Brook University A Discussion of his recent Speculum article “Borderland Anxieties: … Continue reading →

Virginia Blanton (Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to work at the Ruusbroec Institute in Antwerp, researching English nuns who sought refuge in Catholic Flanders during the Reformation. Congratulations! If you have good news to … Continue reading →

Greetings from the Editor’s desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. Since the new issue of Speculum, July 98/3 (2023), will soon post online and land in your mailboxes, I take this opportunity to preview the riches we have in … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the publication of Medieval Academy Books no. 118, The Cartulary of Prémontré by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (University of Toronto Press, 2023). We are actively soliciting manuscripts for future publication in the series. … Continue reading →