Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The Medieval Academy of America is very pleased to announce that the 2017 MAA/GSC Grant in Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization has been awarded to The 17th Annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the University … Continue reading →

Jeffrey J. Cohen (George Washington Univ.) has been awarded the 2017 Réné Wellek Prize for the best book in comparative literature from the American Comparative Literature Association for his monograph, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (Univ. of Minnesota Press, … Continue reading →

When you shop at Amazon.com, you can easily direct Amazon to contribute .5% of your purchase to the Medieval Academy of America. All you have to do is use smile.amazon.com and select the Medieval Academy as your charity of choice. … Continue reading →

Grab your passport and meet us in Toronto! Registration for the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America is now open. Click here for information and to register: https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/?page=2017Meeting.

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), 1 – 3 March 2018. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of … Continue reading →

Click here to read the response of the Council of the Medieval Academy to the recent Executive Order concerning immigration and refugees.

Click here for the results of the 2017 Governance Election.

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the 2017 Class of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows: FELLOWS: Uta-Renate Blumenthal (Emerita, The Catholic University of America) Susan Einbinder (University of Connecticut) Douglas Kelly (University of Wisconsin – Madison) Thomas F. Kelly … Continue reading →

The 2017 Haskins Medal is being awarded to Joel Kaye, A History of Balance, 1250 – 1375.  The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and Its Impact on Thought (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Click here for the … Continue reading →

The 2017 Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies is being awarded to John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History at the University of Notre Dame. This award recognizes John’s multifaceted contributions to the … Continue reading →