Member Benefits

SPECULUM

Speculum is the Academy's quarterly journal of medieval studies; it publishes over a thousand pages a year of articles and book reviews. The journal reaches an international audience and is the most widely distributed journal of medieval studies. Speculum is sent to all members. It is also available by subscription to libraries and other institutions. Back issues are available on-line through JSTOR.

Speculum

BOOK SERIES

Medieval Academy Books, begun in 1928, is the Academy's principal series for new books and monographs, with over one hundred titles. Academy members are entitled to a standing 20% discount on list prices and are offered extra savings during periodic sales. Speculum Books, begun in 1993, reprints collections of articles from Speculum on major themes in medieval studies. Titles are available to members at a discount, with additional discounts available for bulk purchases for classroom use.

Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART), published in cooperation with the University of Toronto Press, reprints books that have gone out of print but are still needed for teaching. Academy members are surveyed to determine which new titles should be added to the series.

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides subventions of up to $2,500 to university and other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members.

Book Publications and Subventions

ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Academy is a major international conference of medieval studies. It is held in the spring at locations on a traveling circuit throughout North America. Academy members receive the call for papers, the meeting program, and a discount on the meeting registration fee.

Annual Meetings

MEDIEVAL ACADEMY NEWS

The Academy's newsletter (published on the Academy website in September, November, and February) reports events and activities of interest to medievalists. Regular features include a conference calendar plus information on fellowships, prizes, programs of undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate study, and job listings. The annual meeting call for papers is included in the spring issue, and information regarding candidates in the annual election is included in the fall issue.

Medieval Academy News Articles

ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Members of the Medieval Academy are offered discounted subscriptions to two online research tools, the International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) and Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

IMB, founded in 1967 with Academy support, provides a comprehensive medieval bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes. Edited at the University of Leeds and produced by Brepols Publishers, the online version of IMB is offered to members for $70 a calendar year (January through December), a significant discount over the usual individual subscription of $300 a year. To subscribe to IMB, members should send a subscription request, along with a check for $70 drawn on a U.S. bank, to Medieval Academy, 104 Mt. Auburn St., 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Subscribers will be contacted by Brepols Publishers to create a user name and password. More information on IMB is available at http://www.brepolis.net.

Iter, a joint project of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Renaissance Society of America, and the University of Toronto, provides access to published materials pertaining to the period 400 to 1700. Academy members receive a modest discount on the regular individual subscription rate. To subscribe, contact Iter, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6, Canada (iter@fis.utoronto.ca). Please do not write the Academy office regarding the Iter offer, which is handled directly by Iter.

MEMBER DIRECTORY

An online directory is in the planning stage.

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS

The Academy offers a number of dissertation grants (of $2,000) and fellowships to advanced graduate students who are members to help defray expenses related to researching and writing dissertations on medieval topics.

Grants, Prizes and Awards

CARA GRANTS

The Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations supports students who are Academy members with two programs. The John Leyerle-CARA Prize provides $1,000 to support the doctoral research of a student who needs to consult materials available in a Toronto collection.

Leyerle-CARA Prize

CARA Tuition Scholarships

Each summer CARA also provides full tuition scholarships to four students participating in Latin summer programs offered at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Toronto.

CARA Tuition Scholarships

TRAVEL GRANTS

The Academy offers a number of travel grants (of $500 and $750) to help members who have obtained their doctorates but who do not have full-time faculty positions to attend conferences where they can present their work.

Travel Grants

AWARDS

Three awards are presented annually for outstanding work published in a medieval field: (1) the Haskins Medal, in honor of Charles Homer Haskins, for a distinguished book; (2) the John Nicholas Brown Prize (of $1,000), in honor of one of the Academy's founders, for a distinguished first book or monograph; (3) the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize (of $500), in honor of a former Executive Secretary of the Academy, for a distinguished first article.

Academy-Sponsored Grants, Prizes and Awards

CARA

The Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations serves as a forum for teachers, administrators, and organizers of centers, institutes, programs, and regional and other organizations devoted to medieval studies. In addition to its own fall conference, CARA sponsors sessions at the Academy's annual meeting and at the Kalamazoo International Congress. CARA's current projects include a database of visiting medievalists from abroad (available on the Web and printed in the newsletter) and a register of recently awarded Ph.D.s in medieval fields.

CARA

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Each year the Academy sponsors sessions at the international medieval congresses that meet in Kalamazoo and Leeds and at the meetings of the American Historical Association. The Academy is a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies and cooperates with a variety of scholarly organizations in North America and abroad.