Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the 2018 Class of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows: Fellows: Keith Busby (French and Italian, The University of Wisconsin) Cynthia Hahn (Art and Art History, Hunter College CUNY) Amy Remensnyder (History, Brown University) Corresponding … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Medieval Academy of America publication prizes: Haskins Medal: Brian A. Catlos, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) Digital Humanities Prize: Elizabeth S. Bolman (PI), The Digital Red Monastery … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the 2018 CARA Awards: Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies: Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist Univ.) CARA Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Monica Green (Arizona State Univ.) and Emily Steiner (Univ. … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Annual Meeting Graduate Student Prizes: Best Student Paper: Robin S. Reich (Columbia Univ.), “Nearly Gold and Neary Perfect? Meaning and Materiality of Copper-alloy in Twelfth-Century Sicily.” Robin will deliver … Continue reading →

In November 2017 Richard C. Hoffmann, a member of the Medieval Academy since 1965 and now Professor Emeritus in medieval history at York University, Toronto, was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.   His citation reads in … Continue reading →

It has long come to the attention of members of the Medieval Academy of America that policies need to be established and formally registered concerning behavioral expectations for MAA Annual Meetings. The MAA encourages open discourse among colleagues of all … Continue reading →

Registration for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America is now open! The meeting will take place at the Emory University Conference Center in Atlanta, from 1-3 March 2018. The program, registration, and hotel information are available … Continue reading →

I am very pleased to announce the results of the 2018 Governance election: President: David Wallace (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 1st Vice-President: Ruth Mazo Karras (Univ. of Minnesota) 2nd Vice-President: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Councillors: Raymond Clemens (Beinecke Library, Yale … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America seeks to appoint an Editor for Speculum.  The position is configured as part-time, requiring around 25 hours per week. The Editor is appointed for an expected five-year term, subject to acceptable yearly performance reviews, with … 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 … Continue reading →