PUBLICATION PRIZES
The Haskins Medal
Awarded annually since 1940 for a distinguished book in the field of Medieval Studies. The award honors the medieval historian Charles Homer Haskins, a founder of the Medieval Academy and its second President.
Rita Copeland, Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2022)
The John Nicholas Brown Prize
Awarded annually since 1978 for a first single-authored monograph on a medieval subject, judged by the selection committee to be of outstanding quality. The prize honors John Nicholas Brown, one of the founders of the Medieval Academy and its Treasurer for fifty years.
Janna Coomans, Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
The Article Prize in Critical Race Studies
Awarded annually since 2020 to an article in the field of Medieval Studies, published in a scholarly journal, that explores questions of race and the medieval world and that effectively challenges and enables the field of Medieval Studies to examine the significance of race in its areas of research and its scholarly methods.
Mohamad Ballan, “Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatīb (d. 1374)
and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada,” Speculum 98/2 (2023): 447-495
The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
Awarded annually since 1971 for a first article in the field of Medieval Studies, published in a scholarly journal, judged by the selection committee to be of outstanding quality. The prize honors Van Courtlandt Elliott, Executive Secretary of the Academy and Editor of Speculum from 1965 to 1970.
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 98/3 (2023): 727-762
The Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize
Awarded annually since 2017 to an outstanding digital research project in Medieval Studies.
Wendy Belcher, Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM)
The Karen Gould Prize
Awarded annually since 2018 for a book or monograph in medieval art history judged by the selection committee to be of outstanding quality. The prize, established by an endowed gift from Lewis Gould in 2016, honors the art historian Karen Gould (1946-2012), author of The Psalter and Hours of Yolande of Soissons (Medieval Academy of America, 1978).
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
Awarded annually since 2023 for an exceptional project that demonstrates the importance of studying the medieval past to understand the present. The prize, established in 2021 and supported by a fund of the same name, honors historian Monica H. Green’s scholarship and public advocacy on the history of medicine, epidemics, and pandemics.
Kristopher Kersey, Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024)
The Jerome E. Singerman Book Prize
Awarded annually since 2023 to a meritorious second monograph on a medieval topic. The prize, supported by a fund of the same name, honors Jerry Singerman, longtime acquisitions editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
OTHER AWARDS
The Medieval Academy of America Inclusivity & Diversity Travel Grant
Awarded annually since 2019 to one Annual Meeting participant for a presentation on the study of diversity and inclusivity in the Middle Ages, broadly conceived.
Tirumular Narayanan, University of Wisconsin Madison: “‘Is that Burning Love or is it Hellfire?’: Sultan, Saint, Race and Conversion in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century ‘Trial by Fire’ Scenes”
The CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching
Awarded annually since 2003 by the MAA’s Committee for Centers and Regional Associations in recognition of outstanding pedagogical achievement by Medieval Academy members
Sara Ann Knutson, University of British Columbia
Christopher W. Platts, University of Cincinnati
The Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies
Awarded annually since 2002 by the MAA’s Committee for Centers and Regional Associations in recognition of individuals who have developed, promoted, and administered Medieval Studies programming, curricula, and research. The award was renamed in 2004 in honor of the literary scholar and administrator Robert L. (Bob) Kindrick (1942-2004), CARA Secretary from 1985 to 2003.
Stephanie Batkie, University of the South
The Medieval Academy of America Fellows Research Awards
Established in 2024 and funded by the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, these awards support Ph.D. candidates and non-tenure-track scholars lacking other sources of research funding.
Sopio Gagoshidze, Rutgers University: “The Khakhuli Triptych and the Art of Repurposing”
Dana Katz, Goethe University Frankfurt: “Rome beyond Rome: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Medieval Christian and Muslim Mediterranean”