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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.
Harvard Alum Publications Receive Medieval Academy Awards
Travis Zadeh (Ph.D. '07) and Rowan Dorin (Ph.D. '15) have been honored with two of the Medieval Academy of America's most prestigious book prizes.
Harvard Medievalists Honored
Harvard University medievalists James Simpson and Sean Gilsdorf recognized by the Medieval Academy of America.
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Watch it now ...
In case you missed it (or want to see it again), Professor Brent Miles' April 2021 Medieval Studies Seminar lecture Treatises on Biblical Kingship from Medieval Ireland now is available on YouTube! Click here to access the video.
Harvard Medievalists honored as 2020 Cabot Fellows
Three members of Harvard's Medieval Studies community have been honored as 2020 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: William Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and...
What Were They Thinking?
Harvard Law Today recently talked to medievalist Liz Kamali about her new book, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Read their conversation here!
Harvard Medievalist Stephen Mitchell wins 2019 Jarl Gallén Prize
Stephen Mitchell, the Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Folklore and a member of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, has been awarded the sixth Jarl Gallén Prize by the Thure Gallén Foundation. The prize, created in...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Fictionality and Belief in Middle English Writing, with Julie Orlemanski
Coleridge's famous phrase "the willing suspension of disbelief" implies that disbelief (i.e., secularity) is a pre-condition of fictionality. That argument is made explicitly in Catherine Gallagher's well-known article "The Rise of Fictionality"—but it is...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: “The beast epic – forgotten by the animal turn?”
Despite a growing body of exciting research on medieval animality, the beast epic, which should loom large in this area of interest, has largely remained on its side lines. Excellent recent studies on medieval animality, for instance by Sarah Kay and...
ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Encountering the Strange in Early Medieval England, with Martin Foys
From Bede’s accounts of Britain’s originary myths to current scholarly and popular engagements with the Anglo-Saxon past, to encounter early medieval England is to depict or enact strangeness. Taking Sarah Ahmed’s work on embodied strangeness, queer...
Africa in the Medieval World: latest lecture available for viewing
The fifth lecture in this year's "Africa in the Medieval World" lecture series is now available online! To watch "Objects and Encounters on the Medieval East African Coast" by Stephanie Wynne-Jones (University of York), delivered on Monday, 25 March 2019...
