# News [### Digging for answers ](/news/2026/05/digging-answers) May 05, 2026 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. ![Andrew Bair photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/ABair.png?h=b712a300&itok=SMJwbgcA) [### Harvard Alum Publications Receive Medieval Academy Awards ](/news/2026/03/harvard-alum-publications-receive-medieval-academy-awards) March 17, 2026 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. ![Travis Zadeh and Rowan Dorin](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/zadehdorin.jpg?h=bf5f62b8&itok=UiYvxgr1) [### Harvard Medievalists Honored ](/news/2026/02/harvard-medievalists-honored) February 13, 2026 Harvard University medievalists James Simpson and Sean Gilsdorf recognized by the Medieval Academy of America. ![MAA logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/MAA%20logo%20with%20name%20%281%29.jpg?itok=QNk7lZLd) [### New issue of Sententiae now available! ](/news/2026/02/new-issue-sententiae-now-available) February 13, 2026 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... ![Cover image from 2025 issue of journal Sententiae](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Screenshot%202026-02-13%20at%2011.31.13%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=bxPi5cNs) [### The Medieval Academy of America turns 100 ](/news/2025/07/medieval-academy-america-turns-100) July 23, 2025 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 ... ![MAA 2025 Presidential Address](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/MAA%202025.jpg?itok=5zd8HdJ4) [### Undergraduate Research Symposium: Call for Papers ](/news/2025/03/undergraduate-research-symposium-call-papers) March 24, 2025 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... ![Undergrad symposium 2025 CFP](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Undergrad%20symposium%20CFP%202025.jpg?h=f69dbd07&itok=SEY8-EQH) [### New issue of Sententiae now available! ](/news/2025/02/new-issue-sententiae-now-available) February 10, 2025 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. ![Sententiae description](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Sententiae%20poster%202025.png?itok=AKC3pbDt) [### Calling all artists and graphic designers ... ](/news/calling-all-artists-and-graphic-designers) September 09, 2024 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... description [### Undergraduate Symposium: Call for Submissions ](/news/undergraduate-symposium-call-submissions) February 28, 2024 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... ![Undergrad symposium 2024](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/christianandmuslimplayingchess.jpg?itok=o-TrO4oV) [### Harvard medievalist honored by University of Antwerp ](/news/harvard-medievalist-honored-university-antwerp) March 30, 2023 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... ![dsmail_0.jpeg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/dsmail_0.jpeg?itok=xKk6gU3w) [### Harvard medievalists honored ](/news/harvard-medievalists-honored) August 01, 2022 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... description [### Harvard medievalist named President of Delphi Center ](/news/harvard-medievalist-named-president-delphi-center) August 01, 2022 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... ![Roilos](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/proilos.jpg?itok=rU54uAlZ) [### Watch it now ... ](/news/watch-it-now) September 30, 2021 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. description [### Harvard Medievalists honored as 2020 Cabot Fellows ](/news/william-granara-named-2020-cabot-fellow) May 08, 2020 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... ![wgranara.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/wgranara.jpg?itok=5zMjbUrw) [### What Were They Thinking? ](/news/what-were-they-thinking) December 24, 2019 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! ![Kamali Felony and the Guilty Mind](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/kamalicover.jpg?itok=ZwtgUmEW) [### Harvard Medievalist Stephen Mitchell wins 2019 Jarl Gallén Prize ](/news/harvard-medievalist-stephen-mitchell-wins-2019-jarl-gall%C3%A9n-prize) October 29, 2019 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... ![Stephen Mitchell](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/mitchell.jpg?itok=adLM1XCp) [### ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: “The beast epic – forgotten by the animal turn?” ](/blog/icms-kalamazoo-2020-%E2%80%9C-beast-epic-%E2%80%93-forgotten-animal-turn%E2%80%9D) July 26, 2019 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... description [### ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Encountering the Strange in Early Medieval England, with Martin Foys ](/blog/icms-kalamazoo-2020-encountering-strange-early-medieval-england-martin-foys) July 26, 2019 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... description [### ICMS, Kalamazoo 2020: Fictionality and Belief in Middle English Writing, with Julie Orlemanski ](/blog/icms-kalamazoo-2020-fictionality-and-belief-middle-english-writing-julie) July 26, 2019 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... description [### Africa in the Medieval World: latest lecture available for viewing ](/news/africa-medieval-world-latest-lecture-available-viewing) April 08, 2019 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... ![Africa in the Medieval World](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/medievalstudies/files/aitmw_detail.jpeg?itok=1tts7d17)