MAA News – New Byzantine Studies Prize

We are thrilled to announce the establishment of a new book prize this year, for a meritorious monograph in Byzantine Studies, broadly defined. For example, the prize might be offered to studies that substantially engage with the Eastern Roman Empire and/or its successor states from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries (in any subfield); or studies of peoples and states with close connections to Byzantium, such as Coptic Egypt, the Syriac world, Armenia, and Georgia. Books must be monographs written in English and authors must be members of the MAA. The Prize of $1,000 will be awarded at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. For the first five years, the Prize will be a pilot program with the possibility of extension, funded by a consortium of five Byzantine Studies organizations: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University; the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture; the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University; the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University; and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. The MAA is extremely grateful to these organizations for supporting the Prize. For more information or to submit a monograph for consideration, see the Call for Submissions below or click here.