Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

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 →

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 →

The Academy encourages its members to apply for grants and residential fellowships in these and other programs: The American Academy in Rome The American Council of Learned Societies The American Philosophical Society Getty Research Fellowships Guggenheim Foundation Institute for Advanced … Continue reading →

Debby Banham (Cambridge University) and Martha Bayless (University of Oregon) have won ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowships to collaborate on a book on bread as a cultural force in Anglo-Saxon England (see https://www.acls.org/research/cr.aspx?id=4378) Thomas Barton (Univ. of San Diego) was awarded … Continue reading →

Dear MAA Members: At our February 2016 Annual Meeting in Boston, the Council of the MAA, in anticipation of the upcoming centenary of the founding of the Academy in 1925, voted to constitute a long-range planning committee to review our … Continue reading →

Sara V. Torres (2014 Ph.D. UCLA) has been awarded the 2016-17 editorial postdoctoral fellowship at Speculum. Sara was selected from a pool of more than forty applicants. She will join the Speculum team in July and work as a full-time … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy of America had a strong presence at Kalamazoo. The Medieval Academy plenary lecture delivered by Jane Chance (Rice Univ.) was well-attended and -received, generating much discussion and comment about Tolkien and his take on female … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be at Leeds this year, please join us Tuesday evening (5 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be presented by Elaine Treharne (Stanford Univ.), “Manuscript Edges, Marginal Time: Why Medieval Matters.” Afterwards, … Continue reading →

The July issue of Speculum is now available online and will soon be at your door. In  addition to book reviews, Memoirs, and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, the issue includes the following articles: Speculum 91:3 (JULY 2016) Barbara … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships, supporting student participation in summer courses in medieval languages or manuscript studies: Lorenzo Bondioli (Oxford Univ. and Princeton Univ.): Classical Arabic (Qasid Arabic Language Institute, Amman, … Continue reading →