Several Medieval Academy members have recently been awarded Summer Stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities or have been named Fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies:
NEH Summer Stipends:
Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky Research Foundation), “Lady Justice’s Schoolrooms: Learning Law in the Holy Roman Empire (Germany and Italy, ca. 800-1000)” [preparation of a three-volume history of law in medieval western Europe]
John Ott (Portland State University), “Scandal, Reform, and the Compilation of Canon Law in Eleventh-Century Reims” [Research and preparation for editions and translations of two major documents on church and civil legal history in medieval France, the Apologia of Archbishop Manasses I of Reims (c. 1069-1080) and the legal collection Sinemuriensi produced at Reims in the tenth and eleventh centuries]
Phillip Lieberman (Vanderbilt University), “The Shifting Fate of World Jewry from Iraq to North Africa in the Early Islamic Period” [a book-length project about the dynamics of Jewish life in the medieval Islamic world]
Isabel Moreira (University of Utah), “A Cultural Biography of Queen Balthild of Neustria, France (c.626-80)” [completion of a biography of Queen Balthild of northern France (c. 626-680), who was born an Anglo-Saxon slave, married King Clovis II, was regent to her sons, and after her death was venerated as a saint at the French convent she founded]
ACLS Fellows:
Catherine Conybeare (Professor of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College), “Augustine the African”
Jennifer Jahner (Assistant Professor of Humanities, California Institute of Technology), “The Medieval Experimental Imagination: Scientific and Literary Method in Later Medieval England”
Sara Ritchey (Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Communities of Care: Women, Healing, and Prayer in the Late Medieval Lowlands”
Congratulations! If you have good news to share, please send it to Executive Director Lisa Fagin Davis (LFD@themedievalacademy.org)
