Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

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The Medieval Academy is proud to congratulate these members who were recently awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Benjamin Saltzman (California Institute of Technology), Fellowship for University Teachers, “Secrecy and Divinity in Early English Literature” Carol Symes … Continue reading →

The Centennial Committee continues its work. Over the last few months we have consulted members of the committees of the Academy and the staff in the office in Cambridge who are working hard to help all of us. Now it … 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 →

MAA Dissertation Grants (deadline 15 February): The nine annual Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants support advanced graduate students who are writing Ph.D. dissertations on medieval topics. The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses. Click here for more information. Schallek Awards (deadline … Continue reading →

MAA@AHA The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for panels at the 2018 meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, DC, on January 4-7, 2018. The theme of the 2018 Meeting is “Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective.” … Continue reading →

Members of the Schallek Fellowship Committee unanimously agree that the 2017-18 Fellowship be awarded to Dustin Neighly, for the dissertation project entitled ‘Nor from the Clamor of the Poor: The Common Law’s Influence on Villein Decision-Making Processes’. Neighly is a … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that the first annual Medieval Academy Digital Humanities Prize has been awarded to DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Manuscripts, Palaeography and Diplomatics. (London, 2011-14), http://www.digipal.eu/, developed at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s … Continue reading →

Susan Boynton (Columbia Univ.) was recently awarded a three-year grant from the Partner University Fund (FACE Foundation) for digital humanities and musical iconography, for an exchange with the Sorbonne (http://edblogs.columbia.edu/musiconis/).

Did you know that the Medieval Academy Blog includes Calls for Papers, Job Postings, Conference and Symposium announcements, and many other notices of interest to medievalists? Follow these links for just a few of the resources you’ll find on the … Continue reading →