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Medievalists should note that seven of the 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers focus on the Middle Ages. Four offer opportunities to conduct research in Europe (Rome, Florence, Oxford, York) while the two in the United States offer access to specialized research libraries and collections. While most participants will hold faculty positions, directors may admit up to two graduate students in each seminar. Click here for brief descriptions of these medieval Seminars and Institutes with links to their websites where further information and applications are available (the application for all NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes is March 4, 2014).

William Rhodes

Schallek Fellowship
William Rhodes of the University of Virginia will receive the 2014 Schallek Fellowship. He is working with Prof. Elizabeth Fowler on a dissertation entitled “The Ecology of Reform: Land and Labor from Piers Plowman to Edmund Spenser.” This fellowship, which is supported by the Richard III Society, American Branch, provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (c.1350-1500).

The members of the Schallek Committee in 2013-14 are Joel Rosenthal (Chair, SUNY Stony Brook), Joyce Coleman (University of Oklahoma), Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Notre Dame University) and Nancy Warren (Texas A&M University).

MAA Travel Grants
The MAA Committee for Professional Development is pleased to announce the Winter 2013-2014 Travel Grant winners: Mary Agnes Edsall and Mary Rambaran-Olm won international awards and will be speaking at the 2014 Congress of the New Chaucer Society in Reykjavik, Iceland, in July; Olga Boiché and Sarah Spalding will present papers at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May. The next deadline for Travel Grant applications is 1 May. More information is available here.

The 2013-14 members of the Committee for Professional Development are Karen Mathews (Chair, University of Miami), Georgiana Donavin (Westminster College, Salt Lake City), and Laura Light (Les Enluminures, Paris, New York, and Chicago)

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be hosted by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame and will take place on 12-14 March in Notre Dame, Indiana. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2013 or 2014; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here.

Please contact the Program Committee at MAA15@nd.edu if you have any questions.

The MAA elections closed on 15 January 2014. Nearly 23 percent of the membership voted in the election, up slightly from last year. Thank you for participating!

The ballots will be presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Medieval Academy in Los Angeles on Friday, 11 April at 1:00 PM in the Palisades Ballroom, Carnesale Commons, UCLA.

The newly-elected Officers are:

President: William Chester Jordan (History, Princeton Univ.)
First Vice-President: Barbara Newman (English, Northwestern Univ.)
Second Vice-President: Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Classics, Columbia Univ.)

The newly-elected Councillors are:

Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (History, New York Univ.)
Richard Firth Green (English, Ohio State Univ.)
Samantha Kelly (History, Rutgers Univ.)
William North (History, Carleton College)

The newly-elected members of the Nominating Committee are:

Marjorie Woods (English, Univ. of Texas, Austin)
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale Univ.)

The members of the Medieval Academy congratulate their new Officers and Councillors, who will begin their terms at the close of the 2014 Annual Meeting, and the new members of the Nominating Committee, who will begin their terms at their meeting during the 2014 Annual Meeting.

The members also extend thanks to all those who generously stood for election.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, which will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific at UCLA on April 10-12, 2014. The meeting’s theme is “Empires and Encounters.”

The program will include four plenary sessions:

Presidential Address: Richard Unger, University of British Columbia
Opening Plenary Session: Susan Boynton, Columbia University Fellows Plenary Session: Margaret Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks CARA Plenary Session

The meeting will conclude with a private reception at the Getty Villa in Malibu on Saturday evening. The annual meeting of CARA delegates will take place on Sunday.

Registration is now open. The program, registration link, and hotel information can be found here:

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a very successful meeting.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, which will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific at UCLA on April 10-12, 2014. The meeting’s theme is “Empires and Encounters.”

The program will include four plenary sessions:

Presidential Address: Richard Unger, University of British Columbia
Opening Plenary Session: Susan Boynton, Columbia University
Fellows Plenary Session: Margaret Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks
CARA Plenary Session

The meeting will conclude with a private reception at the Getty Villa in Malibu on Saturday evening. The annual meeting of CARA delegates will take place on Sunday.

Registration is now open. The Program, registration link and hotel information can be found here.

You must register by 10 March to avoid a $35 late-registration fee. Online registration will close on 24 March.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a very successful meeting.