MAA News – Spring Travel Grants Awarded

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Spring 2026 Travel Grants:

Nicholas Babich, “Paths of Enchantment: An Anglo-Irish Riddling Tradition?,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College);

Barbara Denicolò, “Cooking with Wine: Culinary, Dietetic, and Aesthetic Uses in Early Modern Recipe Collections,” Renaisance Society of America Annual Meeting (San Francisco);

Kate Falardeau, “The material afterlife of Bede’s martyrology: liturgy as history in Bavaria, 1000 1200,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College);

Christopher Flynn, “The Imperial Worldview of the Annals of Xanten, 831-873 CE,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College);

Carsten Haas, “Literacy Killed the Poetry Star: The Technology of Writing & the Rise and Fall of the Germanic Kenning,” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting (University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College);

Stephen Westich, “Through and Through: Material and Memorial Meaning in Schloss Wiehe,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan).

MAA Travel Grants support travel to present at conferences for Academy members who hold PhDs but have no access to institutional travel funding. Exceptions to the PhD requirement may be made for unaffiliated or contingent scholars who are active in Medieval Studies.

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