Arizona Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900
Fax: (480) 965-1681
Medieval Academy of America:
Committee on Centers and Regional Associations
Regional Associations
Delaware Valley Medieval Association | International
Academy for the Promition of Historical Studies | Illinois
Medieval Association | Medieval Association of the Midwest
| Medieval Association of the Pacific | Medieval
Club of New York | Mediterranean Studies Association | Mid-America Medieval Association | Mid-Hudson
Medieval Circle | Midwest Medieval History Conference |
New England Medieval Conference| Rocky
Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association | SMART:
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching | Southeastern
Medieval Association | TEAMS: Consortium for the Teaching
of the Middle Ages | Texas Medieval Association
Delaware Valley Medieval Association
http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/dvma/
Contact: Matthew Shoaf,
Thomas Hall
Bryn Mawr College
Phone: 610-574-5921
Email: dvmamems@yahoo.com
President:
Vice-President/President-Elect: Lynn Ransom (
Treasurer:
Mark L. Darby (
Territory:
Number of members: 100
Financial aid: A $500 travel stipend is available to a member who
is a graduate student or independent scholar to help defray travel expenses to
present a paper at a conference or conduct research.
Conferences: Four meetings a year, at varied locations.
Annual dues: $30; students, $10.
Membership procedure: Contact the Secretary or download
application form from web site.
http://www.IllinoisMedieval.org
Executive Secretary: Mark D. Johnston
Deptartment of Modern Languages
802 West Belden Avenue
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773-325-1879
Fax: 773-325-7303
mjohnst4@depaul.edu
President: Christian Sheridan
Vice-President: Thomas Bestul
Council members: Mark Amos, Ray Clemens, William Fahrenbach, Francine
McGregor, Anita Riedinger, David Wagner, Edward Wheatley
Number of members: Approximately 100
Mailing list: Not for sale
Conferences: 2008 Annual meeting: “Pilgrimage in the Medieval
World,” Saint Xavier University, Chicago, 2/22-2/23, 2008; 2009 Annual meeting:
3/26-3/28, Chicago (hosting annual meeting of Medieval Academy of America)
Annual dues: Supporting institutions, $100. Conference attendees from supporting
institutions pay reduced registration fees at the annual conference.
Publications: Essays in Medieval Studies, vols. 1-17 online at http://www.illinoismedieval.org/EMS/index.html;
vols. 18 - present at http://muse.jhu.edu/
International Academy for the
Promotion of Historical Studies
http://www.iaphs.org
Executive Secretary: Carl Edwin Lindgren
American Military University
secretary@iaphs.org
President: Murray Eiland
Vice-President: Stanislaw W. Dumin, Ed Emering and Philip
Eagleton
Delegates: Robert von Dassanowsky (Austria), Don Jesus Barral de
Guerin y de Rouco (Belgium), Levan Z. Urushadze (Republic of Georgia), Tibor M.
Celler (Hungary), Sharif Adhunnur (Labannon), Sergio Antonio Corona Paez
(Mexico), Noel Cox (New Zealand), Carlos Evaristo (Portugal), Tudor-Radu Tiron
(Romania), Vadim L. Yegorov (Russian Federation)
Number of members: 90
Annual dues: No Dues
Membership procedure: Proposed by two Academicians and approved
by the Membership Committee
Publications: Journal of the International Academy for the
Promotion of Historical Studies
Conferences: Annual international conference
Description: The Academy is self-governing and independent but has
ties with other learned societies around the world. The society has several
sections of membership, including: Foreign Extraordinary Fellows (honorary),
Senior Academician, Academician and Associate. All four sections are by
invitation only. The Academy's main goal is to provide a scholarly avenue
through which individuals may meet and discuss historical interests
(medical/scientific history), heraldic sciences, molecular genealogy, medieval
history and specific post-medieval studies; and provide papers, books and
research on the social, psycho-history and philosophy of the aforementioned
topics.
Medieval
Association of the Midwest
Executive Secretary: Kristie A. Bixby
Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Box 13
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS 67260-0013
Phone: 316-978-3735
Fax: 316-978-3739
kristie.bixby@wichita.edu
President: Harriet Hudson
Vice-President: Nickolas Haydock
Council members: Alison Ganze, Peter Goodrich, William Hodapp, Yonsoo
Kim , Annette Murrow, Abraham Quintanar, Edward Risden, David Sprunger, Mickey
Sweeney
Number of members: 148
Annual dues: $25; students and emeriti, $10
Publications: Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of
the Midwest (EPAM) (annual);
Nuntia (biannual newsletter).
Annual meetings: North Dakota State University, Fargo, 2008;
Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, 2009 (actually held in February
2010.
Symposia/workshops: Sessions at the Medieval Congress at
Annual budget: Operations: approximately $3,000, with additional
support from
Medieval
Association of the Pacific
Contact:
Scott Kleinman (2008-2013)
English
California
State University, Northridge
President: Peter D. Diehl, History, Western
Washington University
Vice-President:
Georgiana Donavin, English, Westminster University
Treasurer: John Ott, History, Portland State
University
Secretary/Editor of Chronica: Scott
Kleinman, English, California State University, Northridge
Council members: see http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/map/.
Number of members: 200
Annual dues: Students, $15; Regular, $25;
Sustaining, $50
Membership procedure: President
writes to members Sept. 1 asking for renewal of dues; web site includes
membership renewal form and information about joining.
Financial aid: Benton Travel Award (up to
three per year at $400 each); Founders Prize to up to three best student papers
presented at the annual meeting ($500 for first prize, $250 for runners up).
Publications: Chronica, published
annually.
Annual meeting: In the spring, usually in March
or earl yApril.
Description: The Medieval
Association of the Pacific is a regional organization affiliated with the
Medieval Academy of America. The association welcomes membership of students,
faculty, and independent scholars working on research in the Middle Ages.
Membership is international; there are members in Canada, Japan, Australia, and
New Zealand as well as in the United States. The annual meeting hosts papers on
a variety of medieval topics, the abstracts of which are published in Chronica. Information about members,
including special interest areas, can be found on the MAP web site (http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/MAP).
http://www.medievalclubofnewyork.org
Department of History
Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Phone: 718-631-6291 / 718-932-9655
Vice-President:
Secretary: Nicola Masciandaro
Treasurer: Emily Tai
33-47 14th Street, 5A
New York, NY 11106
etai@qcc.cuny.edu
Territory: Metropolitan New York, including portions of
Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York
Number of members: 170; mailing list of c. 250
Annual dues: $23
Student dues: $10
Membership procedure: Apply to President, Secretary, or
Treasurer
Mailing list: Labels available for $75
Conferences: Biennial conference, one day, usually first
week in March; Session Sponsor at Kalamazoo.
Lectures: 7 monthly meetings which are held at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. (The March meeting is supplanted by
the one-day conference every other year.) The monthly meetings feature
addresses by scholars in various fields of medieval studies. See website for
listing of the 2004-05 Lecture series.
Mediterranean
Studies Association
http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org
Executive
Director and Treasurer: Benjamin F. Taggie
PO Box 212
E. Sandwich, MA 02537
Phone: 508-264-4854
Fax:
btaggie@umassd.edu
Senior Editor and Director: Richard W. Clement richard.clement@usu.edu
Number of members: 200.
Annual dues: $60.
Membership procedure: Attend annual conference, subscribe to
journal, or send in membership form on web site.
Publications: Mediterranean
Studies (annual, published by Manchester University Press).
Conferences: Annual international conference (1998 Lisbon,
Portugal; 1999 Coimbra, Portugal; 2000 Salvador, Brazil; 2001 Aix-en-Provence,
France; 2002 Granada, Spain; 2003 Budapest, Hungary; 2004 Barcelona, Spain;
2005 Messina, Italy; 2006 Genoa, Italy; 2007 Évora, Portugal; 2008 Lüneburg,
Germany; 2009 Cagliari, Italy; 2010 Salamanca, Spain; 2011 Corfu, Greece).
Programs:
Mediterranean Studies summer program in History, Art History, Art, Italian
(undergraduate) at the University of Messina, credit from University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth; Nocciano Institute for Art and Culture in Nocciano,
Italy for High School students to study art and photography; summer program in
Portuguese language and culture at the University of Évora (undergraduate),
credit from Évora.
Description: The Mediterranean Studies Association is an
interdisciplinary organization that promotes the scholarly study of the
Mediterranean region in all aspects and disciplines. It is particularly
concerned with the ideas and ideals of western Mediterranean cultures from Late
Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical
and temporal boundaries.
Mid-America
Medieval Association
HTTP://www.MidAmericaMedievalAssociation.org
President: Shona Wray (2008-2009)
Department
of History
University
of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City,
MO 64110-1116
Phone:
816-235-2541
Fax: 816-235-5723
Email: wrays@umkc.edu
Treasure: James S. Falls (1977-Present)
Department
of History
University
of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City,
MO 64110-1116
Phone: 816-235-2545
Fax: 816-235-5723
Email: fallsj@umkc.edu
Territory: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
Nebraska, and Oklahoma
Annual Dues: $350-400
Membership Procedure: Complete membership card on website,
or contact Jim Falls, or register at annual meeting.
Scholarships: Jim Falls Paper Prize, a $100 award
for Best Graduate Paper at annual conference. Students who attend and read at
the conference can submit their paper for the award. Check website for
deadline.
Conferences: Annual meeting is usually the last
Saturday in February; the 33rd MAMA Conference will take place
Saturday, February 28, 2009, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City;
one-page paper abstracts on any medieval topic must be submitted no later than
December 10, 2008, to either Shona Kelly Wray or Jim Falls.
Keynote
speaker, 33rd conference; Lester K. Little, Dwight W. Morrow
Professor Emeritus Smith College.
Coordinator: Christine M. Reno
Department of French
Vassar College, Box 440
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Phone: 845-437-5719
Fax: 845-437-7025
reno@vassar.edu
Number of members: Approximately 30, mostly from mid-Hudson
Valley colleges and universities.
Membership procedure: Attend the annual meeting.
Dues: None. Members pay for lunch at the annual meeting.
Conference: Annual meeting. April 2003, at Vassar College,
"Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Middle Ages;" 5 papers from
colleagues at Vassar, Columbia and New York University. Vassar College's Dean
offered $138 to support speakers' lunches and rental of campus building where
the meeting was held. Title of 2004 conference, "Medieval
Innovations."
Annual budget: Approximately $200.
Description: The group meets once a year in the early fall for
papers and lunch. The program is based on a theme, which is often proposed at
the previous meeting. Notice of the meeting is sent to appropriate departments
between New York City and Albany.
Midwest
Medieval History Conference
http://www.cola.wright.edu/Dept/HST/
Secretary: Louis Haas
Peck Hall Room 223
MTSU Box 23
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
lhaas@mtsu.edu
Phone: 615-898-2536
Treasurer: Martin Arbagi
5562 Joyce Ann Dr.
Dayton, OH 45415
Phone: 937-775-2909; Fax: 937-775-2892
Description: The Midwest Medieval History Conference is an ad hoc
group that holds an annual meeting and sponsors 1 or 2 sessions at the
International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. It has no formal
membership or dues. Attendance at the annual meeting has fluctuated in recent
years between 40 and 60. The Conference was founded in 1961.
Membership procedure: None. Attendance at the annual meeting confers
membership.
Mailing list: Not a membership list as such, but an up-to-date
list of about 350 medieval historians in the U.S. and Canada. It is available
as a comma-delimited ASCII file. Contact the Treasurer for details.
Conferences: Recent meetings have been held at Wright State
University (1994), Northern Illinois University (1995), Washington University
(1996), Bradley University (1997), University of Notre Dame (1998); University
of Cincinnati (1999).
Annual budget: None. The institution that hosts the annual
meeting takes responsibility for such things as the honorarium of the guest
speaker.
Financial aid: Subsidy for graduate students who deliver papers
at the annual meeting (Friday afternoon has traditionally been devoted to
presentations by graduate students). Normally this subsidy consists of free
registration for the meeting and is the responsibility of the institution that
hosts the meeting.
Fund-raising activities: None at the moment, but this may change.
The group has acquired a Taxpayer Identification Number and has applied for
listing as a Tax-Exempt Organization with the IRS.
New
England Medieval Conference
http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm
Secretary: TBA
President: Arlyn Diamond
Department of English
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Vice-President: Frederick Paxton
Steering committee: Mary-Jo Arn, Carolyn Collette, Gavin Colvert,
Lisa Fagin Davis, Arlyn Diamond, Daniel Donoghue, Richard Emmerson, SunHee Kim
Gertz, Eric Goldberg, Ibrahim Kalin, Steven Marrone, Linne Mooney, Fred Paxton,
Amy Remensnyder, Christine Reno, Robert Sullivan.
Dues: None. Contact the Secretary or President to be placed on
the mailing list.
Number of members: 1150on mailing list.
Conferences: Annual fall conference, October 16 - 17, 2004,
Connecticut College.
Rocky
Mountain Medieval
and Renaissance Association
http://www.uni.edu/~swan/rmmra/rocky.html
Secretary: Kimberly Johnson
Department of English
Brigham Young University
4144 JFSB
Provo, UT 84602
Phone: 801-671-8597
kim_johnson@byu.edu
President: Darin Merrill
merrilld@byui.edu
President-Elect:
Treasurer: Margaret Harp
Margaret.harp@unlv.edu
Executive Council: Alice Blackwell, Jean Brink, Katherine
Clark, Paul Dietrich, James Fitzmaurice, James Forse, Susan Frye, Nancy
Gutierrez, Francis X. “Frank” Hartigan, Boyd Hill, Jolyon Hughes, Charlene
Kellsey, Andrea Knox, Jean MacIntyre, Isabel Moreira, Carol Neel, Charles
Odahl, Glenn Olsen, Harry Rosenberg, Jenny Rytting, Victor Scherb,
Charles Smith, Sarah
Jayne Steen, Jesse Swan, Paul Thomas, Charles Whitney, Elspeth Whitney, Jane
Woodruff
Number of members: Approximately 200
Annual dues: $25
Membership procedure: Contact Secretary (or, see website).
Publications: The peer-reviewed journal Quidditas is
published annually, on-line, at: http://humanities.byu.edu.rmmra. Editor: James Forse, Department of
History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403. Contact the
Editor for submission information (quidditas_editor@yahoo.com) or see website.
Annual Meeting: In the Spring, usually May or June. 2008
conference will be held April 24-26, in Boulder, CO. 2009 Conference will be hosted by Northern
Arizona University.
Description: The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association (RMMRA) is a regional association affiliated with the Medieval
Academy of America. The association welcomes membership of students, faculty,
and independent scholars working on research from the Early Middle Ages to the
Seventeenth Century. Membership is national and international, including
members from Poland, South Africa, and the U.K. The annual meeting hosts papers
on a variety of Medieval and Renaissance topics. Participants are invited to
submit papers for publication in the association journal, Quidditas. Information
for members is posted on our website.
SMART:
Studies in Medieval
and Renaissance Teaching
Contact:
Kristie A. Bixby, Managing Editor
Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Box 13
Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260-0013
Phone: 316-978-3735
Fax: 316-978-3739
kristie.bixby@wichita.edu
Staff: Kristie A. Bixby, Managing Editor; William F. Woods,
Faculty Liaison
Editorial board: Robert Graybill, Emeritus, Central Missouri
State University; Robert E. Lovell, Emeritus, Central Missouri State
University; David Staines, University of Ottawa; William F. Woods, Wichita
State University
Number of members: 75
Annual dues: individuals: $20; libraries: $25; out-of-country:
$25
Membership procedure: Prepayment to SMART, sent to Managing Editor.
Publications: Studies in
Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)
(biannual
journal)
Southeastern
Medieval Association
http://sema-online.us
Secretary-Treasurer: Patricia P. Norwood
12105 Honor Bridge Farm Drive
Spotsylvania, VA 22553
Phone: 540-654-1961 (direct), 540-654-1012 (dept. office)
Fax: 540-654-1966
pnorwood@umw.edu
President: Ordelle Hill
Vice-President: Cynthia Ho
Territory: Texas to Florida, with some members in New York,
Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Ohio, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, and Canada.
Number of members: 200
Annual dues: $25
Membership procedure: Contact the Secretary-Treasurer.
Publications: Medieval Perspectives (annual).
Conferences: The 2005 annual meeting, hosted by Stetson University,
will be held in Daytona Beach on September 29-October 1. The theme is "The
Rules Are Different Here: Otherness and the Middle Ages." http://www.stetson.edu/other/sema
or http://helmet.stetson.edu/other/sema
TEAMS:
Consortium for the
Teaching of the Middle Ages
President: Vickie Ziegler
265 Woodland Dr.
State College, PA 16801
vlz1@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-7484
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/tmahome.html
Executive Secretary: Donald J. Kagay
Dept. of History and Political Science
Albany State University
Albany, GA 31705
Phone: 229-434-4623
Fax:229-430-7895
dkagay@fld94.alsnet.peachnet.edu
President: Sally Vaughn, University of Houston
First Vice-President: D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
Staff: Edwin Duncan, Towson University, WebMaster; Kent Hare,
Northwestern Louisiana University, Newsletter Editor.
Territory: State of Texas.
Number of members: 200.
Annual dues: $15; students, $10.
Membership procedure: Apply to the Executive Secretary.
Mailing list: Available for $50.
Conferences: Annual conference in the fall: University of Houston
(October 17-18, 2005), Baylor University (2006), Texas A&M (2007), Texas
Tech (2008)
Publications: Mirabilia (newsletter, once a year).
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