MAA News – Upcoming Deadlines

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards.

The Inclusivity and Diversity Research Grant
The Inclusivity and Diversity Research Grant of up to $3,000 will be granted annually to a scholar, at any stage in their career, who seeks to pursue innovative research that will broaden the scope of medieval studies. Projects that focus on non-European regions or topics under the Inclusivity and Diversity Committee’s purview such as race, class, disability, gender, religion, or sexuality are particularly welcomed. The grant prioritizes applicants who are students, ECRs, or non-tenured. For the current round of applications, we encourage proposals that address the challenges of conducting research during the Covid-19 era. (Deadline 31 December 2021)

Belle Da Costa Greene Award
The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research. The award will be granted on the basis of the quality of the proposed project, the applicant’s budgetary needs (as expressed by a submitted budget and in the project narrative), and the estimation of the ways in which the award will facilitate the applicant’s research and contribute to the field. Special consideration will be given to graduate students, emerging junior scholars, adjunct, and unaffiliated scholars. Click here for more information. Click here to make a donation in support of the Greene Award. (Deadline 15 February 2022)

Olivia Remie Constable Award
Four Olivia Remie Constable Awards of $1,500 each will be granted to emerging junior faculty, adjunct or unaffiliated scholars (broadly understood: post-doctoral, pre-tenure) for research and travel. Click here for more information. (Deadline 15 February 2022)

MAA Dissertation Grants:
The nine annual 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. Click here for more information. (Deadline 15 February 2022)

Schallek Awards
The five annual Schallek awards support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). The $2,000 awards help defray research expenses. Click here for more information. (Deadline 15 February 2022)

MAA/GSC Grant for Innovation in Community-Building and Professionalization
The MAA/GSC Grant(s) will be awarded to an individual or graduate student group from one or more universities. The purpose of this grant is to stimulate new and innovative efforts that support pre-professionalization, encourage communication and collaboration across diverse groups of graduate students, and build communities amongst graduate student medievalists. Click here for more information. (Deadline 15 February 2022)

Applicants for these and other MAA programs must be members in good standing of the Medieval Academy. Please contact the Executive Director for more information about these and other MAA programs.

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MAA News – Upcoming Podcast Workshop Series

Please join us for these Podcasting Workshops organized by the Graduate Student Committee, with the support of the MAA. The workshops will be led by Hayley Bowman, and will offer an introduction to podcasting for people with little to no experience using the medium. Interested attendants need not be medievalists or graduate students to apply. Please help us spread the word. Participation is free, but prior registration is required.

Production & Technical Development
Monday, November 8 from 11AM to 1PM (Eastern)
Register at: https://bit.ly/30hQotp

In this workshop, Hayley Bowman will discuss best practices for organizing and embarking on podcast production; how to navigate common obstacles in early production/episode development; tips for successful and entertaining episode construction; recommended technologies; and insights drawn from experience that would be useful for people with little to no experience in podcasting.

Post-Production
Monday, December 6 from 2PM to 4PM (Eastern)
Register at: https://bit.ly/3mFTKxP

In this workshop, Hayley Bowman will walk us through the final stages of producing a podcast. What does it take for a podcast episode to be ready? Hayley will discuss how to edit a sound file and other common issues that arise in the post-production stages of podcasting.

About Hayley Bowman:

Bowman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She studies the early modern Spanish world and is broadly interested in the history of women and gender, religious communities, and place and space studies. Bowman has also served as the host and season producer of U-M’s podcast Reverb Effect, which explores how past voices resonate in the present moment.

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Two MAA members were recently awarded publication prizes by the American Society of Church History: Laura Saetveit Miles, for The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England (Boydell and Brewer, 2020); and Katie Bugyis, for “Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages”, published in Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages (D.S. Brewer, 2020).

If you have good news to share, please contact the Executive Director.

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Medieval Academy of America Professional Behavior Policy

Dear MAA members,

By now, many of you have heard the recent revelations in the news media about the disturbing, unprofessional behavior of a prominent medievalist. I wanted to acknowledge the deep hurt that acts of sexual harassment cause for too many individuals in our profession, and reaffirm the Medieval Academy of America’s commitment to protect all members of our community, and especially the most vulnerable among us, from harassment and bullying of any kind. Our Professional Behavior Policy was established in 2019 and may be read online here:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/professional_behavior_policy.pdf

Sincerely,

Thomas Dale
President

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Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies

THE M. ALISON FRANTZ FELLOWSHIP IN POST-CLASSICAL STUDIES AT THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY

Fields of study: Late Antique through Modern Greek Studies, including but not limited to the Byzantine, Frankish, Post-Byzantine, and Ottoman periods.

Eligibility: Ph.D. candidates at a U.S. or Canadian institution or scholars holding a recent Ph.D. (up to five years) obtained from a U.S. or Canadian institution. Candidates should demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library.

Terms: A stipend of $11,500 plus room and board in Loring Hall, and waiver of School fees. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the School for the full academic year from early September to late May. A final report is due at the end of the award period, and the ASCSA expects that copies of all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA be contributed to the Gennadius Library.

Application: Submit an online application form for the “M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical studies at the Gennadius Library.” An application consists of a curriculum vitae, description of the proposed project (up to 750 words), and three letters of reference to be submitted online. Student applicants must submit transcripts. Scans of official transcripts are acceptable.

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Call for participants for the Immersive Global Middle Ages NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

Dr. Robert Martinez and Dr. Lynn Ramey are announcing a:

Virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D digital environments are witnessing explosive growth in research and teaching, but faculty and staff who could benefit from these techniques do not have equal access to the tools they need. Hardware and software used in the creation of 3D environments is expensive; institutional policies and commitment are highly variable; and some who would benefit lack confidence with the technology. The Immersive Global Middle Ages Institute provides a diverse cohort of medievalists with both theoretical and practical training in the creation and implementation of 3D objects and environments for research and teaching. The Institute will meet online three times each semester and will have two in-person four-day summer workshops over a two-year period (January 2022-November 2023). By the end of the Institute, participants will have considered the research around using 3D environments, developed 3D object assets and worlds, and authored teaching resources to pass on their new skills to students and colleagues.

Given that many participants will lack the necessary robust computing hardware and software needed to participate in the workshops, the Institute will award technology stipends to participants for the purchase of an Alienware computer customized for immersive technology, monitor, keyboard/mouse, and a 3-year onsite support/warranty; an Oculus Rift headset; and a two-year license for Trimble SketchUp Pro modeling software.

Details about the Institute can be found here: https://grants.uccs.edu/igma/ All are welcome to apply. Expenses to attend the in-person workshops are also covered by the institute. We are now accepting applications at: https://grants.uccs.edu/igma/application-and-selection-process-for-participants/ Early admission applications are due by October 31, 2021.

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Call for Papers – Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference, 2022

April 21-24, 2022

Paper and session proposals from all areas of medieval studies, including overlapping areas of early modern studies and late antique studies, are most welcome, as are faculty, students, and independent scholars.

Proposals are due 31 October 2021. Individual proposals should include an abstract of approximately 500 words with the author’s name, discipline, and contact information, including any institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. Session proposals should include abstracts for the three papers as well as the contact information for each participant and session organizer. Please email all proposals by 31 October 2021, attached as .doc or .pdf files with “MAP 2022” in the subject line to kolsen@mtroyal.ca.

MAP will be meeting in the stunning Alberta Rockies, and in a distinctly non-urban centre. Located in the Town of Banff on the traditional lands of Indigenous peoples, MAP 2022 at the Banff Centre also seeks paper and session proposals interested in the intersections between the medieval and the natural world, and between European and Indigenous perspectives, to form a thematic thread within the conference. (As is the MAP tradition, papers do not need to relate to the thematic thread announced below to gain acceptance.)
The natural world has long interested scholars of the Medieval and Early Modern periods and their associated fields. Medieval and Early Modern authors, thinkers, and artists, produced a vast and influential corpus inspired by their environments, both natural (non-urban) and urban, and scholars of these periods have recently been stimulated by the theory and practice of environmental, Indigenous, and place studies in all their diversity. This thematic focus will discover and query concepts, theories, literatures, the arts, Indigenous perspectives, ecologies, and knowledge creation, that are rooted in relationship to the environment, climate consciousness, the wild or wilderness, and landscapes.

  • The Natural and Un(non)Natural
  • The Wild and Wilderness in Literary Texts, Law, Politics, and Life
  • Desert Christianity and Desert Saints
  • Spaces and Locations, Urban or Wild
  • Natural or Unnatural Materialities
  • Epistemologies or Ontologies of the Environment
  • The Self in Space or Nature
  • Nature and Identities
  • Indigenous Voices
  • The Natural and Unnatural Mind
  • Climate Consciousness
  • Boundaries Between and In Between

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is located on the traditional lands of Treaty 7 Territory, comprised of the Stoney Nakoda Nations of Wesley, Chiniki, and Bearspaw; three Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy: the Piikani, Kainai, and Siksika; and the Tsuu T’ina of the Dene people. Treaty 7 territory is also shared with the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region III. Before the signing of Treaty 7, and prior to the establishment of provincial boundaries, this region was also used by the Ktunaxa and the Maskwacis people. We acknowledge the past, present, and future generations of these Nations who help us steward this land, as well as honour and celebrate this place.

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Upcoming Podcast Workshop Series

Please join us for these Podcasting Workshops organized by the Graduate Student Committee, with the support of the MAA. The workshops will be led by Hayley Bowman, and will offer an introduction to podcasting for people with little to no experience using the medium. Interested attendants need not be medievalists or graduate students to apply. Please help us spread the word. Participation is free, but prior registration is required.

Production & Technical Development
Monday, November 8 from 11AM to 1PM (Eastern)
Register at: https://bit.ly/30hQotp

In this workshop, Hayley Bowman will discuss best practices for organizing and embarking on podcast production; how to navigate common obstacles in early production/episode development; tips for successful and entertaining episode construction; recommended technologies; and insights drawn from experience that would be useful for people with little to no experience in podcasting.

Post-Production
Postponed to Monday, December 13 from 2PM to 4PM (Eastern)
Register at: https://bit.ly/3mFTKxP

In this workshop, Hayley Bowman will walk us through the final stages of producing a podcast. What does it take for a podcast episode to be ready? Hayley will discuss how to edit a sound file and other common issues that arise in the post-production stages of podcasting.

About Hayley Bowman:

Bowman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. She studies the early modern Spanish world and is broadly interested in the history of women and gender, religious communities, and place and space studies. Bowman has also served as the host and season producer of U-M’s podcast Reverb Effect, which explores how past voices resonate in the present moment.

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Call for Applicants

The Richard Rawlinson Center, a research center focused on the history and culture of early medieval England and manuscript research, at Western Michigan University seeks applications for a graduate representative to its International Advisory Board to serve a two-year term beginning in May 2022. The graduate representative is expected to attend the annual meetings and provide input, in return receiving gratis registration for the International Congress on Medieval Studies during the years serving as board member (i.e., 2022 and 2023). Ph.D. students who have been enrolled in their program(me)s for at least one year by the date of taking up the appointment are eligible. An application includes a current curriculum vitae and a brief (one page, single spaced) statement of interest (deadline: Feb. 1, 2022). wmich.edu/medieval/research/early-england

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Jacob Hirsch Fellowship

Jacob Hirsch Fellowship
Deadline: January 15, 2022

Field of Study: Archaeology

Eligibility: U.S. or Israeli citizens who are either Ph.D. candidates writing their dissertations in archaeology, or early-career scholars (Ph.D. earned within the last five years) completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece.

Terms: Stipend of $11,500 plus room and board in Loring Hall, and waiver of School fees. A final report is due at the end of the award period, and the ASCSA expects that copies of all publications that result from research conducted as a Fellow of the ASCSA be contributed to the relevant library of the School.

Duration: Commensurate with the School’s academic year, from early September to June 1.

Application: Submit online application form for “Associate Membership with Fellowship”, curriculum vitae, and a detailed description of the project to be pursued in Greece (250-word abstract and a statement up to three pages, single spaced). Arrange for three letters of recommendation. Student applicants are required to submit scans of official academic transcripts as part of the online application.

Click here for more information.

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