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Jeffrey J. Cohen (George Washington Univ.) presented the Medieval Academy Annual Lecture at the Leeds International Medieval Congress on 4 July. His paper, titled “Outside Noah’s Ark: Sympathy and Survival as the Waters Rise,” explored medieval ideas about those left behind by the Great Flood and considered how Noah and his family were thought to have responded to the dead and dying. The Medieval Academy reception afterwards was well-attended and gave our European colleagues an opportunity to meet members of the Academy staff and governance and to learn more about who we are and what we do. The Graduate Student Committee hosted a successful reception on Monday evening.

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.

Birgit Baldwin Fellowship
The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship provides a grant of $20,000 to support a graduate student in a North American university who is researching and writing a dissertation for the Ph.D. on any subject in French medieval history that can be realized only by sustained research in the archives and libraries of France. It may be renewed for a second year upon demonstration of satisfactory progress. (Deadline 15 November 2017)

Schallek Fellowship
The Schallek Fellowship provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). (Deadline 15 October 2017)

Travel Grants
The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help Academy members who hold doctorates but are not in full-time faculty positions, or are contingent faculty without access to institutional funding, attend conferences to present their work. (Deadline 1 November 2017 for meetings to be held between 16 February and 31 August 2018)

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The Medieval Academy of America invites submissions for the following prizes, to be awarded at the 2018 MAA Annual Meeting (Emory University, 1-3 March). Submission instructions vary, but all dossiers must complete by 15 October 2017.

Haskins Medal
Awarded to a distinguished monograph in the field of medieval studies.

Digital Humanities Prize
Awarded to an outstanding digital research project or resource in the field of medieval studies.

Karen Gould Prize [NEW]
Awarded to a monograph of outstanding quality in medieval art history.

John Nicholas Brown Prize
Awarded to a first monograph of outstanding quality in the field of medieval studies.

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
Awarded to a first article of outstanding quality in the field of medieval studies.

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The MAA/CARA Conference Grant for Regional Associations and Programs will be awarded for the first time in 2017. The $1,000 award will help support a regional or consortial conference taking place in 2018.

Applications are due by 15 October 2017. Click here for more information: https://medievalacademy.site-ym.com/page/MAA_CARA_Grant

At the 2018 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Medieval Academy plenary lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sara Ritchey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). We invite submissions for two sessions related to Prof. Ritchey’s lecture as well as sessions sponsored by the GSC and CARA:

Plenary-related sessions:
1) Medical Texts in Manuscript Culture

2) Saints as Therapy

Contact: Monica Green
Arizona State Univ.
SHPRS, Box 874302
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Phone: 480-965-5778
Fax: 480-965-0310
Email: monica.green@asu.edu

The Medieval Academy Graduate Student Committee will sponsor a roundtable titled “Meet the Editors: Tips and Techniques on Article Submission for Graduate Students” (Contact: Katherine Sedovic, sedovick@tcd.ie)

Finally, the MAA’s Committee for Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) will sponsor two roundtables:

1) The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond

2) Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages

Contact: Sarah Davis-Secord
Univ. of New Mexico
Dept. of History, MSC06 3760
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: 505-277-2451 Fax: 505-277-6023
Email: scds@unm.edu

Proposals must be received by the session organizers by 15 September. For more information and the full Call for Papers, click here:
https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress

We are very pleased to announce the 2017 ACLS fellowship recipients who are members of the Medieval Academy of America:

Mohamad Ballan – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Doctoral Candidate, History, University of Chicago
“The Scribe of the Alhambra: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb, Sovereignty, and History in Nasrid Granada”

Andrew J. Collings – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Doctoral Candidate, History, Princeton University
“The King Cannot Be Everywhere: Royal Governance and Local Society in the Reign of Louis IX”

Helen Cushman – Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Doctoral Candidate, English, Harvard University
“Producing Knowledge in the Middle English Mystery Plays”

Claire L. Fanger – ACLS Fellowship Program Associate Professor, Religion, Rice University
“Prophecy in Practice: The Everyday Life of Divine Knowledge in the Twelfth Century”

Samantha Kelly – ACLS Fellowship Program Professor, History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Crucible of Christian Cultures: Ethiopian and European Scholars in Reformation Rome”

Paolo Squatriti – ACLS Fellowship Program Professor, History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Environment, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
“Pleasing Plants and Worrisome Weeds: Botanical Change in Early Medieval Europe”

Congratulations! If you have good news to share, please contact Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis at LFD@TheMedievalAcademy.org.