Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

If you’re going to be at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds this year, please join the Medieval Academy on Tuesday evening (7 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Sara Lipton (SUNY – … Continue reading →

The inaugural MAA/GSC Grants in Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization have been awarded to three collaborative projects: “English Manuscript Rolls 1200-1600: A Collaborative Digitization Project” (Anya Adair, Yale University; Katherine Hindley, Yale University; Jessica Henderson, Univ. of Toronto; Micah … Continue reading →

This is the first year that the Academy has offered support to an expanded group of summer programs, and we are pleased to announce that scholarships to support summer coursework in languages or paleography have been awarded to: Casey Ireland … Continue reading →

Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Columbia Univ.), who will be President of the Medieval Academy in 2016-17, was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Medieval and Renaissance History to support her work on a critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis. Former Academy … Continue reading →

Thirty-seven out-of-print volumes of Medieval Academy Books, digitized several years ago as part of an NEH-funded project and available as PDFs on our website, are now also retrievable by searching the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance. Among other goals, MESA “aggregates … Continue reading →

The 2015-16 Rome Prizes in Medieval Studies were recently awarded by the American Academy in Rome to two members of the Medieval Academy: Eric Knibbs (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Williams College) was awarded the Millicent Mercer Johnsen Post-Doctoral Rome … Continue reading →

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 Dissertation Grants and the 2015 Schallek Awards. Dissertation Grants: The nine endowed and named Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants support advanced graduate students in medieval studies. Hannah Elmer (Columbia University), “Sites … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America, in collaboration with the Richard III Society – American Branch, is pleased to announce that the 2015 Schallek Fellowship has been awarded to Samuel Rostad (University of Notre Dame) for research on his dissertation, “Benedictine … Continue reading →

As always, the Medieval Academy will have a strong presence at Kalamazoo next week, sponsoring a Plenary lecture, two related sessions, and, through CARA and the GSC, three roundtables: Plenary lecture: Friday, 8:30 AM, East Ballroom, Bernhard Center Cary J. … Continue reading →

At the recent Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy at the University of Notre Dame, The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS http://www.teamsmedieval.org/) sponsored a roundtable session titled “The Futures of Medieval Studies and the Academy,” moderated … Continue reading →