Medieval Association of the Midwest |
The Medieval Association is a community of scholars spread across the Midwest area of the United States, as well as interested scholars from Canada and other parts of the United States.
"The purpose of the Association is to promote study, criticism, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the medieval period. Methods of achieving this purpose might include faculty exchanges, inter-institutional cooperation, annual meetings, the publication of a newsletter, and particular encouragement of young scholars." [From the MAM constitution, available here as an Adobe Acrobat file (pdf)]
EXECUTIVE BOARD:
PRESIDENT
Term Ending 2024:
Mickey Sweeney
VICE PRESIDENT (prev conf coord)
Term Ending 2023: Alexander Lee Kaufman
EXECUTIVE BOARD
SECRETARY (three-year term)
Newly Elected in 2023: Amity Reading
former/transition Harriet Hudson (per grace)
TREASURER (six-year term)
Ending 2024: Harriet Hudson
Newly Elected 2023: Wendy Matlock
CO-EDITORS of ENARRATIO
Alison Langdon
&
Alexander Lee Kaufman
alkaufman@bsu.edu
Coordinator of Sessions (three year term):
Stephen Yandell
COUNCILORS
Term Ending 2024:
Term Ending 2026: Thanks and welcome to our new councilors!Molly Martin
Sean Lewis
Carlos Hawley
Yonsoo Kim
Paula Leverage
Emilee Howland
Michael Nagy
Libby Escobedo
Heather Hill
VOTING PROCEDURES:
The Process we follow for elections, new Constitution:
1. Nominations were solicited over the course of the year of elections year.
2. MAM councilors approve these candidates to run with the return of a majority "yes" votes.
3. Then we send a general request vote/email to our MAM members introducing the people who have been nominated by the councilors and we will tally what votes we receive to decide the vote. If the majority of responses are yes votes then we can proceed with calling the election and thanking those who have served and welcoming candidates into their new positions.
FORMER Executive Board Members & Coomunications specialists
Kristen Figg
(previous Co-Editor of Enarratio)
Matthew Heintzelman
(previous MAM Website editor)
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John’s University
Matthew O’Donnell
(previous Communications Director)Department of English, Indiana University
Alison Langdon
(Co-Editor of Enarratio)
Department of English, Western Kentucky University
Jana K Schulman
(Director of the Medieval Institute)
Western Michigan University
Past Term Ending in 2022: many thanks to these colleagues for their support and service
Officers and council academic affiliations (2021).pdfWendy Matlock
David O'Neil
Sara Petrocillo
1975: At a CARA meeting at Saint John's University, initial discussions are held to promote medieval studies in the Midwest. An outgrowth of these discussions is the Medieval Association of the Midwest . Early leaders included--to name a few--Robert Kindrick, Merle Fifield, and Christopher Kleinheinz.
1979: Newsletter--Nuntia--is introduced.
1986: First MAM annual meeting, at Ball State University (Indiana)
1991: First issue of MAM's proceedings is published. Today this journal is known as Enarratio.