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)]
MAM 2023 Revised Constitution.docx
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
AmityReading@depauw.edu
former/transitioning out Harriet Hudson (per grace)
Description: taking, copying, and distributing the minutes of official meetings of the Board and Business meetings; preparing solicitation flyers, keeping the database of members up-to-date.
TREASURER (six-year term)
Ending 2024: Harriet Hudson
Newly Elected 2023: Wendy Matlock
wmatlock@ksu.edu
Description: Maintenance and oversight of MAM’s bank account; deposit and write checks. Maintain financial records, submit an annual report & attend MAM Council and business meetings, both virtual and in-person. As an officer, the Treasurer helps to determine policies and procedures relating to expenditures. Manually update membership database on Wild Apricot as necessary and insure that annual e-mail renewal reminders are sent to members via Wild Apricot. Most members join and renew membership through MAM’s website. Wild Apricot automatically notifies the Treasurer of these actions by e-mail. On-line payments are deposited directly into MAM’s bank account. Since Wild Apricot records on-line transactions and updates the membership database automatically, there’s minimal work involved for the Treasurer.
CO-EDITORS of ENARRATIO
Alexander Lee Kaufman
alkaufman@bsu.edu
Co-editor to be decided
Co-ordinator of Sessions (three year term):
Outgoing 2024: Stephen Yandel
Newly Appointed: Tory Schendel-Vyvoda
tlschend22@gmail.com (ending 2027)
Description of Co-ordinator of Sessions (created March 2024)
The convenor of conferences, a member of MAM’s Executive Council, is responsible for organizing and executing papers sessions, panels, and organizational meetings sponsored by the Medieval Association of the Midwest at academic conferences. These conferences include regional, national, and international events, though the primary work centers on organizing MAM-sponsored events at the International Medieval Congress held each spring at Western Michigan University. Key responsibilities including soliciting session ideas at MAM’s annual meeting at the Congress, submitting session proposals (typically between 5-7 sessions) to the Congress online platform in June, encouraging papers submissions for accepted sessions in September, organizing business meetings for MAM at the Congress (typically one for the Executive Council and the general body, which includes scheduling rooms and food), and, finally, overseeing the execution of MAM’s sessions during the conference. In some years MAM sponsors sessions at additional events (regional medieval conferences, Leeds), and the Co-ordinator of Conferences oversees creation and execution of those as well.
COUNCILLORS
Term Ending 2027:
Term Ending 2026:Molly Martin
Lauren Calwell
Emily Eikost
Meg Morrow
Emilee Howland
Michael Nagy
Libby Escobedo
Heather Hill
MINUTES:
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
Former Co-editor of EnarratioAlison Langdon
Past Terms:
Term Ending 2024:
Molly Martin
Sean Lewis
Carlos Hawley
Yonsoo Kim
Paula Leverage
Ending in 2022:
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.
John McCully, was the editor of the inaugural volume in 1991, and Karen Moranski, alternated with Mel Storm as editor for several years counting at least eight issues. Special issues were edited by 2007--Carlos Hawley-Colรณn , Edward Risden, Kristen Figg; 2009--William Hodapp, Edward Risden, Mel Storm); 2013--Peter Goodrich, Kristen Figg).