Category Archives: MAA Newsletter

The MAA Graduate Student Committee presents Grant Writing: A Conversation with Recipients (A Virtual Workshop offered by the MAA’s GSC) 30 April 2024 @1:00pm (EST) Join us for a conversation with young scholars who have successfully secured major funding for … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides grants of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members. Click here for more information. The Medieval Academy Inclusivity and … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Dissertation Grants : Saagar Asnani (University of California, Berkeley), “Languages of Song: A Sociolinguistic History of Medieval Music and its Vernaculars” (Grace Frank Dissertation Grant) Austin James Benson (University … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 MAA/GSC Grant for Innovation has been awarded to “Ballintober Bonds: Introductory Community Archaeology Workshop Series” (PI Wendy H. Vencel, North Carolina State University). The MAA/GSC Grant is awarded annually to an individual … Continue reading →

With the retirement of Editor Katherine Jansen forthcoming in 2025, the Medieval Academy of America seeks to appoint an Editor, or co-Editors, for Speculum. The position is configured as part-time, requiring between 20 and 30 hours per week, with some … Continue reading →

We are very pleased to announce that (pending permission from presenters) the 2024 Annual Meeting plenary sessions as well as the Business Meeting will be livestreamed on the University of Notre Dame platform (times are US Eastern): https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/events/medieval-academy-of-america-2024/live-streams/ Recordings will … Continue reading →

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America Harvard University, Cambridge MA 20-22 March 2025 The Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by … Continue reading →

The 2024 Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant has been awarded to Alexandra Montero Peters (Texas State University), “Imagining India, Imagining Race: Arabic Geographies and Castilian Histories as Sources for Medieval Muslim-Christian Intellectual Exchange.” This paper will be presented in Session 26 on … Continue reading →

If you are joining us at the upcoming Annual Meeting at Notre Dame, please note these gatherings of interest to graduate students, digital humanists, and anyone in need of mentoring! Thursday, 8:30 – 10 PM: Grad Student Social, sponsored by the … Continue reading →

The next online meeting of the Race and Gender Working Group will take place on March 8 from noon – 1:30pm EST. Jonathan Correa-Reyes (Clemson University) will speak on “Towards a Christian Genre of Man: Revisiting The Siege of Jerusalem.” Dr. … Continue reading →