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Digging for answers

A recent issue of the Harvard Gazette featured a profile of Anthropology graduate student Andrew Bair, discussing his research and the challenge it poses to long-established chronologies of rural settlement in medieval Ireland.

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Harvard Medievalists Honored

Harvard University medievalists James Simpson and Sean Gilsdorf recognized by the Medieval Academy of America.

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New issue of Sententiae now available!

Issue 9 (Fall 2025) of Harvard's undergraduate Medieval Studies journal Sententiae, featuring articles by Daniel Bethke (Tufts University), Conger Wang (University of Edinburgh), Kaitlyn Stanton (RISD), and Keaton Flynn (UCLA) now is available on the...

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The Medieval Academy of America turns 100

This March, Harvard University hosted the Centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, the world's largest organization dedicated to teaching and research on the medieval world ...

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Undergraduate Research Symposium: Call for Papers

The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies is pleased to announce its forthcoming Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies, which will take place on Friday, 25 April in the Barker Center's Thompson Room. This event is co-sponsored with the Committee...
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New issue of Sententiae now available!

Volume 7 of Sententiae, Harvard's undergraduate journal of Medieval Studies, is now available on-line! The issue, featuring articles by Christine Corcoran, Corbin Robinson, and Olivia Glunz, can be read at the Sententiae website here.
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Calling all artists and graphic designers ...

The Committee on Medieval Studies is looking for a new--in fact, our first--official logo, and wants you to help! Anyone in the Harvard community--undergrads, grad students, faculty, and staff--are encouraged to submit a design for our Medieval Logo...

Undergraduate Symposium: Call for Submissions

The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies is pleased to announce its forthcoming Undergraduate Symposium in Premodern Studies, which will take place on Friday, 19 April in the Barker Center's Thompson Room. This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on...
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Harvard medievalist honored by University of Antwerp

Daniel Lord Smail, Frank B. Baird Professor of Medieval History, has been awarded the degree of Doctor in Arts honoris causa by the University of Antwerp, in recognition of his outstanding work in the fields of medieval urban history and material cultural...
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Harvard medievalists honored

Four members of Harvard's Medieval Studies Committee have been honored at Harvard and beyond for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American...

Harvard medievalist named President of Delphi Center

Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature as well as a member of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Steering Committee of Harvard's Special Graduate Program in Byzantine Studies, has...
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