Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

96th Annual Meeting Medieval Academy of America  Indiana University, Bloomington 15-18 April, 2021 Call for Papers The 96th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that the 2020 Dissertation Grants are being awarded as follows: Amy W. Clark (UC Berkeley), “Familiar Distances: Beating the Bounds of Early English Identity” (John Boswell Dissertation Grant) Robert Edward Cutrer (University of Sydney), … Continue reading →

The 2020 Schallek Awards, granted in collaboration with the Richard III Society-American Branch to support dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain, have been awarded to: Ariana Ellis (University of Toronto), “Curtain Call: The Performative Sensory-Scape of … Continue reading →

MAA/CARA 2020 Summer Scholarships are being awarded to the following students: Marcel Camprubí (Princeton University), Qasid Institute Meredith Day Cutrer (University College Dublin), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Spencer T. B. Hunt (University of Notre Dame), Royal Library of the … Continue reading →

The 2020 Graduate Student Committee Grant is being awarded to the 2021 Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference at UW-Madison.

At this moment in particular, it gives us all great joy to announce some good news. Two of our members have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships: Dyan Elliott (Northwestern University), The Quick and the Dead: the Medieval Church and the Exhumation … Continue reading →

On March 9, we were compelled to cancel the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We made a decision, in consultation with the Program Committee and the MAA governance, to turn the … Continue reading →

In the present crisis, as a growing number of our medievalist colleagues find themselves facing financial precarity, job insecurity, and difficulty accessing research resources, your  Medieval Academy membership matters more than ever. With your help, the Academy increased its support … Continue reading →

The latest issue of Speculum is now available on the University of Chicago Press Journals website. To access your members-only journal subscription, log in to the MAA website using your username and password associated with your membership (contact us at info@themedievalacademy.org … Continue reading →

Because the 2020 International Medieval Congress and International Congress on Medieval Studies have been cancelled, MAA programming for those conferences has been deferred until 2021. We hope you will join us in Kalamazoo next year where the MAA Plenary will … Continue reading →