Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

To the Members of the Medieval Academy: Members are hereby invited to submit nominations for Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America. Fellows and Corresponding Fellows are senior scholars who have made notable contributions to the field … Continue reading →

Judith Herrin (Professor Emerita, Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London) has been awarded the 2016 Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for History from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Harvard Visiting Scholar … Continue reading →

Applications are now being accepted for a two-year Postdoctoral Editorial Fellowship at Speculum, the journal of the Medieval Academy of America. The Speculum fellowship represents a significant fulfillment of one aspect of the Medieval Academy’s continuing efforts to recognize and support extraordinary … Continue reading →

Haskins Medal The Haskins Medal is awarded annually by the Medieval Academy of America for a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies. First presented in 1940, the award honors Charles Homer Haskins, the noted medieval historian, who was … Continue reading →

To the Members of the Medieval Academy: Members are hereby invited to submit nominations for Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America. Fellows and Corresponding Fellows are senior scholars who have made notable contributions to the field … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America has long provided a variety of benefits of membership, including numerous fellowships, prizes and grants for travel, research and publications. Please see the list below for prizes and fellowships with looming deadlines, then follow the … Continue reading →

Call for Papers: MAA Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017 The Medieval Academy of America seeks proposals for two sponsored sessions at the 2017 International Congress on Medieval Studies, on the topic of “Mobility of Things and Persons.” These … Continue reading →

Kathryn A. Smith, Professor of Art History at New York University, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. If you have something you’d like to share, please send your good news to Executive Director Lisa Fagin … Continue reading →

The 2016 Medieval Academy Annual Lecture at the Leeds International Medieval Congress was presented by Elaine Treharne (Stanford University), titled “Manuscript Edges, Marginal Time: Why Medieval Matters.” An abstract is online here. In a thought-provoking presentation that found connections between … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that, beginning in 2017, the Medieval Academy of America will add a Digital Humanities Prize to its suite of publication honors, to be awarded alongside the Haskins Medal, the Brown Prize, and the Elliott … Continue reading →