Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Medieval Academy of America congratulates the winners of the 2020 Medieval Academy Publication Prizes: Haskins Medal: Richard F. Green. Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) Karen Gould Prize in Art … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the 2020 CARA Awards: Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Awards for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies: Eugene Lyman (Treasurer, Medieval Academy of America) and Deborah Deliyannis (Indiana University and The Medieval Review) CARA Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Sean Field (Univ. of … Continue reading →

The annual Inclusivity and Diversity Travel Grant is awarded to a participant in the Medieval Academy’s Annual Meeting presenting on the study of diversity and inclusivity in the Middle Ages, broadly conceived. In 2020, an anonymous donation has made it … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to support these emerging scholars are they present their work at the 2020 Annual Meeting: Best Student Paper: Christopher Halsted (Univ. of Virginia), “Wounds Before Milk: Gender and Steppe Ethnography in Post-Carolingian Europe” (Session IV.9) Travel Bursaries: … Continue reading →

To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America, The Second Ballot of the 2020 Election of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows closed on Wednesday, 2 January. The results have been certified by the President of the Fellows and the Fellows … Continue reading →

A Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) award for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives was granted to Elizabeth Hebbard (Univ. of Indiana at Bloomington), Principal Investigator, “Peripheral Manuscripts: Digitizing Medieval Manuscript Collections in the Midwest.” The following MAA members have … Continue reading →

To the members of the Medieval Academy of America: I am very pleased to announce the results of the 2020 governance election, which closed at 11:59 PM on Jan. 2: President: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French & Italian, Univ. of Pittsburgh (Emerita)) 1st … Continue reading →

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place at the University of California, Berkeley from 26-28 March 2020. The program, registration, and hotel information are available here. Register by February 21 to take advantage of the early-bird discount, … 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  if you have forgotten either), … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for panels at the 2021 meeting of the American Historical Association in Seattle, January 7-10. Each year the Medieval Academy co-sponsors with the AHA several sessions at this meeting that are likely to … Continue reading →