We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Fellows Research Awards. Because of the strength of this year’s applicant pool, the selection committees (comprised of members of the Fellows Executive Committee) elected to fund four Awards instead of two:
Graduate Students:
Emily Gebhardt (Duke Univ.), “The King’s Matter: Text, Flesh, and Power in Late Medieval England”
Zachary Young (Univ. of Florida), “Saturday Masses of the Virgin Mary for Baptized Jews”
Post-Graduate:
Eileen Morgan, “The Role of Food in Venetian Festival Activities Before 1500”
Heather Gaile Wacha, “No Map is an Island: Linking the Vercelli Map to its Archival Context”
The Fellows Research Awards of $5,000 each are made possible by the generosity of the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, who both fund and administer these annual Awards. The MAA is exceedingly grateful to the Fellows for their support of these early-career scholars.
