The University of Chicago Press is honored to share that several articles in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies have won prizes from major organizations. These three articles join a long list of recent award-winners from the journal , which is the flagship publication of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) and a major international forum for medieval studies research.
Winner of the 2025 MAA Article Prize in Critical Race Studies
Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Kha ṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada
Mohamad Ballan, Speculum 98/2
The MAA Article Prize in Critical Race Studies is awarded annually to an outstanding article that explores questions of race and the medieval world.
Winner of the 2025 MAA Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
Fraudulent Counsel: Legal Temporality and the Poetics of Liability in Dante’s Inferno , Boniface VIII’s Liber Sextus , and Gratian’s De penitentia
Grace Delmolino, Speculum 98/3
The MAA Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding first article in the field of medieval studies.
Winner of the 2023 SHERA Emerging Scholar Prize
On the Aesthetic of Diagrams in Byzantine Art
Justin Willson, Speculum 98/3
The SHERA Emerging Scholar Prize aims to recognize and encourage original and innovative scholarship in the field of East European, Eurasian, and Russian art and architectural history.
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