Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

As part of the celebrations for the MAA’s Centennial Year, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee and the Graduate Student Committee have partnered to organize a year-long series of webinars showcasing exciting DH projects. These will ordinarily take place … Continue reading →

I am very pleased to announce the new MAA committee members, recently appointed by the Council in accordance with our policies and procedures: Conferences: American Historical Association Program Committee: Peter Sposato (Indiana Univ. Kokomo) Kalamazoo Program Committee: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda (Evansville African American Museum) … Continue reading →

Don’t forget to renew your MAA Membership for 2025! You must renew by June 30 to avoid an interruption of benefits. Your MAA membership provides you with numerous exclusive benefits, including: • A subscription to Speculum – the premier journal … Continue reading →

2025 Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to several MAA members: Thomas Burman (Univ. of Notre Dame), Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College), Katherine Jansen (Catholic Univ. of America, and Editor of Speculum). John Mulhall (Purdue Univ.) has been awarded the 2025-2026 Paul Mellon … Continue reading →

Greetings from the Editor’s desk at Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. I write this column fresh from the Medieval Academy of America’s largest ever annual meeting at Harvard, in celebration of the centennial anniversary, where hundreds of medievalists from around … Continue reading →

What a joy it was to see so many of you at Harvard a few weeks ago for the 100th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America! With more than 850 attendees, this was our largest and most expansive … Continue reading →

We are thrilled to officially launch our online MAA Archive! As part of our Centennial celebrations, and in preparation for our move to smaller office space this coming summer, former Special Projects Assistant Diana Myers has scanned and catalogued our … Continue reading →

Every month, we’ll be spotlighting two MAA Centennial Grant Projects. These twenty-one projects span the continent and reflect some of the best that Medieval Studies has to offer. We are so pleased to be able to support these symposia, performances, … Continue reading →

What Makes Great Medieval Associations? CARA on Zoom, Tuesday May 13th, 1pm-2pm EST The MAA’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations invites you to join us for a panel discussion by leaders of groups across the US and Canada on … Continue reading →

2026 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting: Consortiums and Confluences Call for Papers The 101st annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on March 19–21, 2026 on the campuses of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst … Continue reading →