The Schallek Awards support graduate students whose work, in any relevant discipline, focuses primarily on the late medieval period in England or any of the British Isles, or which involves British connections to the European Continent in the late medieval period. The five Awards of $5,000 each are supported by a generous gift to the Richard III Society from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek.
Madeline Fox (University of Michigan), “The Middle English Devotional Life of Magdalena von Freiburg”;
Olivia Caroline Geraci (University of Notre Dame), “Liturgical practices of medieval English women religious”;
Catherine Rose Introcaso (CUNY Graduate Center), “Annotation as Embodied Devotion in Late Medieval Mystical-Contemplative Manuscripts”;
Kamila Kaminska-Palarczyk (Yale University), “Reading Like a Woman: Medieval Prologues in the Mother Tongue, c. 1300–1420″;
Karen Ward (University of Waterloo), “The Interpellating Mindscape of Medieval York: Objects, Times, and Spaces as Networked Cultural Nodes in the York Corpus Christi Cycle”.
The four Constable Awards of $1,500 support research and travel for unaffiliated scholars, adjuncts, postdoctoral lecturers, and other pre-tenure scholars. The Constable Fund was established in memory of Oliva Remie Constable.
Ella Beaucamp, “Swallow, Bite, Sing: Sound and Image in the Romanesque Ambones of Campania”;
Katherine Churchill, researching late medieval English archives, docupoetry, and authority;
Brittany Nikole Forniotis, “Monumental Fictions: Constructing Urban Landscapes with Pieces of the Past”;
Matthew A. Keil, investigating the Syriac origins and Greek transmission of the hagiographic Life of Abraham of Qidun and Mary.
The Belle da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 supports research and travel by an unaffiliated, adjunct, or otherwise pre-tenure medievalist. Belle Da Costa Greene (1883-1950) was a prominent art historian and the first manuscript librarian of the Pierpont Morgan collection. She was also the first known person of color and second woman to be elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (1939). The 2026 Greene Award is being granted to Tiago Viula de Faria, “Falconry: Cultural Syncretism in Medieval and Early Modern Portugal.”
I’ve just completed my first annual report as the new editor of Speculum. If you’re a glutton for punishment, you can read the whole thing under Proceedings in the July issue. But in the meantime, I’d like to share some statistics with the whole MAA membership. During my first eight months on the job we received 65 submissions, of which we accepted 5, rejected 43, and offered 10 authors a chance to revise and resubmit. As of March 1, nine articles are still under review. (Two contributors have already resubmitted their pieces, accounting for the discrepancy.) So our acceptance rate of fully reviewed submissions is only 8.6%. It’s wonderful to be so selective—but we’re very much on the lookout for first-rate articles! So please consider submitting your work.
