We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:
The Haskins Medal: Travis Zadeh, Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos (Harvard University Press, 2023)
John Nicholas Brown Prize: Rowan Dorin, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton Univ. Press, 2023)
Sarah M. Guérin, French Gothic Ivories (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022)
Inaugural Byzantine Studies Prize: Baukje van den Berg, Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Article Prize in Critical Race Studies: Krisztina Ilko, “Chess and Race in the Global Middle Ages,” Speculum 99/2 (2024), 480-540
Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize: [no Prize awarded in 2026]
Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Paul Ulishney, “New Evidence for Conversion to Islam in Anastasius of Sinai’s Hodegos,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 78 (2024), 29-48
Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Brigitte Buettner, The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture (Penn State University Press, 2022)
Monica H. Green Prize: Rachel Schine, Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Jerome E. Singerman Prize: Michelle Karnes, Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
These prizes will be presented during the Presidential Plenary at the upcoming Annual Meeting, on Saturday, 21 March, at 10:45 AM. Please join us as we honor these medievalists for their impactful scholarship.
