Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants

To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary, The Medieval Academy established a new program of dissertation grants named in honor of five members who over many years contributed to the development of The Academy: Hope Emily Allen, Helen Maud Cam, Grace Frank, Etienne Gilson, and E. K. Rand. Their careers as teachers and scholars reflect the organization's wide-ranging disciplinary interests.

Interests which will be developed and expanded by the next generation of scholars whose research will be supported by these grants. Since the program began, an additional two grants have been funded in honor of Frederic C. Lane and Charles T. Wood.

Dissertation Grant Instructions
Dissertation Grant Application
Dissertation Grant Honorees
Endowing a Dissertation Grant

The Medieval Academy of America Dissertation Grants for 2010

Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant
Leah Haught, Univ. of Rochester
"Toward an Aesthetic of Failure: Generic Expectation and Identity Formation in Middle English Arthuriana"

Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant
Jolanta N. Komornicka, Boston Univ.
"Necessary Crimes: Lese-majeste and the Parlement of Paris 1328-1380"

Grace Frank Dissertation Grant
Sean Curran, Univ. of California, Berkeley
"Vernacular Piety, Polytextual Polyphony, and the Motets of the 'La Clayette' Manuscript"

Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant
Sarah Bromberg, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"The Fifteenth-Century Context and Reception History of the Illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam"

Frederic C. Lane Dissertation Grant
Rena Lauer, Harvard Univ.
“Vitality on the Margins: A Notarial Case Study of Jews and Slaves in Venetian Crete, 1300-1500”

E. K. Rand Dissertation Grant
Martina Saltamacchia, Rutgers University
“Marco Carelli, the Merchant of Milan”

Charles T. Wood Dissertation Grant
Rebecca Gould, Columbia University
“The Political Ontology of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem (1100-1250)”