MAA News – 2022 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes

The Medieval Academy of America congratulates the winners of the
2022 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes:

Haskins Medal: Marina Rustow, The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)

Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Joan Holladay, Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize: The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe (DALME). Principal Investigators: Daniel Lord Smail, Gabe Pizzorno, and Laura K. Morreale (Harvard University) (https://dalme.org/)

John Nicholas Brown Prize: Elias Muhanna, The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)

Article Prize in Critical Race Studies: Nahir Otaño Gracia, “Towards a decentered Global North Atlantic: Blackness in Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd,” Literature Compass. 2019; 16:e12545. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12545

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Brenna Duperron, “Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe,” English Language Notes 58 (2020), 121-135; and Patrick Meehan, “Recontextualizing Indigenous Knowledge on the Prussian-Lithuanian Frontier, ca. 1380-1410,” The Medieval Globe (2020), 93-119.

The Publication Prizes will be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, hosted by the University of Virginia. The presentation of the Prizes will take place preceding the Presidential Address on Saturday, 12 March, at 10:45 AM Eastern Time. We hope you will join us – in person or virtually – as we honor these scholars and acknowledge their important work.

We will make a final determination about the format of the Annual Meeting in the coming weeks. Updated information about the Annual Meeting may be found here: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting

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