Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research Grant

The Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America, recognizes exceptional projects that illuminate the relevance of medieval studies today. Established in 2021, this annual prize aims to honor innovative scholarship and public engagement that connect historical insights with contemporary issues, particularly in understanding pandemics and health. The prize includes a monetary award of $1,000, supporting research that bridges the past and present.

Medieval Academy of America
The academy publishes the quarterly journal Speculum, and awards prizes, grants, and fellowships. The Medieval Academy supports research, publication, and teaching in medieval art, archaeology, history, law, literature, music, philosophy, religion, science, social and economic institutions, and all other aspects of the Middle Ages.
This Prize was established in 2021 to honor Monica H. Green and is supported by a fund of the same name. Dr. Green’s body of scholarship and public advocacy makes a large and innovative contribution to our awareness and understanding of pandemics, their vectors and their historiography, topics of increasing urgency in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Her work towards a global history of health reframes the public discussion of epidemics and pandemics: it is relevant to biomedical researchers, molecular biologists, population geneticists, and policymakers as well as to historians and medievalists from all fields. Green’s collaborative approach to scholarship serves as a model for others to follow, engaging with geneticists, archaeologists, paleobiologists, and others forging connections between modernity and the Middle Ages both in the public and scholarly spheres. The Monica H. Green Prize will honor scholarship and public engagement that demonstrates the importance of studying the past to understand the present.

Eligibility

Eligibility CriteriaResearch involving original work with primary sources from the medieval period (including not only texts but also artifacts of material and visual culture), knowledge of which emerges in the research as vital in the present time. The award seeks to highlight the specific contribution medievalist expertise in scholarship can make to almost any field of modern thought and knowledge. Research that is solidly grounded within one or more historical disciplines of medieval studies (philology, paleography and codicology, art history, letters and diplomatic, archaeology, religious, social, cultural and political history). The informed integration of such disciplines with other disciplines (e.g. STEM subjects, as in, for instance, the use of sheep genetics and osteology applied to dating parchment, or of odontology in the history of early immigration, etc.) is very welcome, though not a precondition.The delivery of the research may of course embrace the digital and non-traditional media that are now so valuable in scholarship, but it should be noted that this is an award for exceptional research that directly addresses the medieval period.PIs and authors may self-nominate or be nominated by others.
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