The Freeman Foundation and its founder Weston Milliken have generously offered a $10,000 matching grant to enable the Medieval Academy to offer the John Boswell Dissertation Grant annually. The MAA will need to raise $10,000 by June 30, 2013.

John Boswell, a medieval historian who taught at Yale University from 1975 until his death in 1994 at age 47, was a pioneer in two fields that have developed significantly over the past two decades: the study of Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, especially in the Iberian peninsula, and GLBT studies.His scholarly legacy is found not only in his four monographs, but in he many students, both undergraduate and graduate, who followed him into the profession. Before his death he also served on the board of the Freeman Foundation, which has now offered this matching grant in his honor.

Please make a donation in any amount by 30 June 2013 to help the MAA match this challenge and provide further graduate student funding.