We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Dissertation Grant awardees:
Veronica A. Arntz (Marquette University), “Between Creativity and Uniformity: The Liturgical Life of Marienberg bei Helmstedt in its Visual, Material, and Spatial Context, 1176-1570” (Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant);
Paul Rembert Aste (Brown University), “Constructions of Alterity in the Early Medieval Province of Narbonne: Rhetoric, Narrative, and Resistance in the Shadow of the Pyrenees” (Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant);
Imen Boussayoud (Brown University), “Descent of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in the Canary Islands and Madeira (1370-1600 CE)” (John Boswell Dissertation Grant);
Miguel Fernandes (University of Chicago), “Grasping Number: Embodied numeracy and visualization in the long middle ages” (Étienne Gilson Dissertation Grant);
Nathan Paul Greenhaw (State University of New York at Stony Brook), “Imperial Entanglements: Religion, Culture, and the Borderland Politics of the Norman-Byzantine Rivalry in the Medieval Mediterranean” (Frederic C. Lane Dissertation Grant);
Timothy Hampshire (Harvard University), “The Vatican Virgil and its Public” (E. K. Rand Dissertation Grant);
Flannery E. McIntyre (University of California, Berkeley), “Music and the Materiality of Knowledge in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” (Robert and Janet Lumiansky Dissertation Grant);
Charlie Steinman (Columbia University), “Embodiment of Jurisdiction: Petty Officialdom and Enforcement in the Lower Rhône Valley, c. 1200-1350” (Charles T. Wood Dissertation Grant);
Margaret H. Wilson (The Ohio State University), “Making and Breaking Enclosure: The Movement of Art Through Late Medieval Convents” (Grace Frank Dissertation Grant).
Medieval Academy dissertation grants support advanced graduate students who are writing Ph.D. dissertations on medieval topics. The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials.
