The Medieval Academy Blog

Every month, we’ll be spotlighting two MAA Centennial Grant Projects. These twenty-one projects span the continent and reflect some of the best that Medieval Studies has to offer. We are so pleased to be able to support these symposia, performances, and digital initiatives as part of our Centennial celebrations.

Ohio: Mothers and Sisters of the Veil. With concerts on 21 and 22 March by Trobár Medieval (Cleveland), “Mothers and Sisters of the Veil” explores the lives of medieval nuns through their spiritual familial experience, with repertoire drawing from both Western Catholic and Byzantine Orthodox traditions of chant. Click here for

Puerto Rico: Jornadas caribeñas de estudios medievales: dedicadas a la Dra. Isabel Gutierrez del Arroyo (Caribbean Conferences on Medieval Studies: In Memory of Dr. Isabel Guitierrez del Arroyo), University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. From 31 March – 2 April, this conference will be dedicated to promoting and highlighting the importance and relevance of Medieval Studies on the island, in memory of Dr. Gutierrez del Arroyo – to celebrate her life, interest, and audacity as a scholar. This three-day event will focus on the importance of Medieval Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean and will present research of local medievalists.

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes. Please join us at the upcoming Annual Meeting as we honor these scholars and their work. The prizes will be presented during the Presidential Plenary Session on Saturday 22 March at 10:30 AM.

The Haskins Medal
Rita Copeland
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
(Oxford Univ. Press, 2022)

The John Nicholas Brown Prize
Janna Coomans
Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries 
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021)

The Article Prize in Critical Race Studies
Mohamad Ballan
“Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khat ̣ īb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada,”
Speculum 98, no. 2 (2023): 447-495

The Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize
Wendy Belcher
Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project
https://pemm.princeton.edu/en-us

The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
Grace Delmolino
“Fraudulent Counsel: Legal Temporality and the Poetics of Liability in Dante’s Inferno, Boniface VIII’s Liber Sextus, and Gratian’s De penitentia,”
Speculum 98, no. 3 (2023): 727-762

The Karen Gould Prize in Art History
Jennifer Regan Borland
Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022)

The Monica H. Green Prize
Kristopher Kersey
Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024)

The Jerome E. Singerman Prize
Adrienne Williams Boyarin
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: the Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Online Registration for the Annual Meeting closes on March 6!

Early-bird discounted registration has ended, but you can still take advantage of online registration until March 6. In-person registration will be available with an additional surcharge.

Registration is open for the Centennial Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, which will take place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 20-22 March 2025. This year’s Centennial program, hosted by Harvard University in collaboration with Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Fitchburg State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stonehill College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College, will bring together nearly 500 scholars from three continents, 23 countries, over 200 academic institutions, and a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds for 114 paper sessions, four plenary lectures, and a host of associated workshops and events, addressing the medieval world from the North Atlantic to the Sea of Japan as well as the histories and possible futures of Medieval Studies itself. While this will be an in-person meeting, our plenary lectures—given by Kristina Richardson (Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia), Sara Lipton (President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of History at Stony Brook University), Wendy Belcher (Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Princeton University), and a diverse group of medieval scholars and administrators—will be live streamed.

We are excited to welcome you to Cambridge, and look forward to meeting you, learning from you, and celebrating our shared commitment to Medieval Studies. As of February 17, the general registration fee is $150 for members ($175 for non-members), with the registration fee for members who are graduate students, contingent faculty, or independent scholars set at $100 ($125 for non-membera).

Click here for more information and to register!