The Medieval Academy Blog

MAA Dissertation Grants (deadline 15 February):

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.

Schallek Awards (deadline 15 February):

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.

MAA/GSC Grant for Innovation in Community-Building and Professionalization (deadline 15 February):

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.

Olivia Remie Constable Award (deadline 15 February):

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.

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.

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the 2018 Class of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows:

Fellows:
Keith Busby (French and Italian, The University of Wisconsin)

Cynthia Hahn (Art and Art History, Hunter College CUNY)

Amy Remensnyder (History, Brown University)

Corresponding Fellows:
Jacques Dalarun (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Paris)

Walter Pohl (University of Vienna)

These scholars are being honored for their notable contributions to the field of Medieval Studies and were elected by the current Fellows. More information about the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America is available on our website. New Fellows will be officially inducted during the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. The induction ceremony will take place at 3:45 PM on Saturday, 3 March, at the Emory University Conference Center.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Medieval Academy of America publication prizes:

Haskins Medal: Brian A. Catlos, Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c.1050-1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Digital Humanities Prize: Elizabeth S. Bolman (PI), The Digital Red Monastery Church: Open Access for Scholars and the Public, for Research and Teaching

Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Elina Gertsman, Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (University Station: Penn State Univ. Press, 2015) and

Christina Maranci, Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2015)

John Nicholas Brown Prize: Dimitri Korobeinikov, Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Alison Locke Perchuk, “Schismatic (Re)Visions: Sant’Elia near Nepi and Sta. Maria in Trastevere in Rome, 1120-1143,” Gesta 5 (2016): 179-212.

These awards will be presented at the upcoming Medieval Academy Annual Meeting at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) during the Presidential Plenary on Saturday, 3 March, at 10:45 AM.

We are very pleased to announce the 2018 CARA Awards:

Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies: Bonnie Wheeler (Southern Methodist Univ.)

CARA Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Monica Green (Arizona State Univ.) and Emily Steiner (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

These prizes will be awarded during Business Meeting at the upcoming Medieval Academy Annual Meeting at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) on Friday, 2 March at 12:30 PM.

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Annual Meeting Graduate Student Prizes:

Best Student Paper: Robin S. Reich (Columbia Univ.), “Nearly Gold and Neary Perfect? Meaning and Materiality of Copper-alloy in Twelfth-Century Sicily.” Robin will deliver her paper on Friday, 2 March, at 4:30 PM in the session “Trade and Material Culture in the Mediterranean II.”

Travel Bursaries: Matthew Delvaux (Boston College), “Reflecting the Northern Arc: Bead Imports and Slave Exports in the Baltic World”; Gina Hurley (Yale University), “Confessing the Empress in the Erle of Tolous”; Annie Killian (Yale University), “Tracing Sermon Verses in The Book of Margery Kempe”; Laura Maria Somenzi (Emory University), “Teodelinda and the Invention of Sacred Space at Monza, 1300-1450.”

These prizes will be awarded during the Business Meeting at the upcoming Annual Meeting, on Friday at 12:30 PM, with the exception of “Best Student Paper,” which will be awarded during the Presidential Plenary on Saturday at 10:45 AM. We hope you will make an effort to hear the papers delivered by these emerging scholars.

In addition, we are very pleased to announce that four students have been awarded Annual Meeting Travel Bursaries from the Graduate Student Committee to help them attend the Meeting: Daniel Davies, Rebecca Hill, Brittany Poe, and Judith Weston. We look forward to welcoming them, and all of the attendees, to Atlanta.

In November 2017 Richard C. Hoffmann, a member of the Medieval Academy since 1965 and now Professor Emeritus in medieval history at York University, Toronto, was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.   His citation reads in part: “Historian Richard C. Hoffmann is the rare scholar who established a new subfield in his discipline.  Through his internationally renowned, prize-winning, and pioneering scholarship, his mentoring of emerging scholars, and his networking and organizational activities, he has built the environmental history of premodern Europe.”

The proceedings of a conference, held in Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain) on “Dueñas, cortesanas y alcahuetas” as an homage to Joseph T. Snow, were published in November 2017, with 32 contributors from Canada, the USA, Mexico, England, Germany, Japan, Algeria and Spain. A second conference held in his honor, “Celestina y lo celestinesco,” was held at the Catholic University of Buenos Aires in August of 2017 and the papers are being published in the journal LETRAS, in its two issues in 2018.

If you have good news to share, contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis.