Recipients of the Schallek Awards announced by the Medieval Academy of America.

We are pleased to congratulate the following winners of the 2025 Schallek Awards:

Mikkaela Bailey (The Catholic University of America), “Belongings and Belonging in Medieval East Anglia: Guild, Parish, and Society, 1350-1530”

Eliza H. Feero (Northwestern University), “Re-Forming the Body: Muslim Dismemberment and Identity Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature”

Izzy GT Howard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Made A Living Soul: Genesis and the Creation of the Soul in Medieval Devotional and Mystic Literature”

John Christopher Houston Loudfoot (University of Waterloo), “Medieval Mine Waste and Social Troubles”

Amanda Mocsi (University of California Riverside), “Medieval Literature, Medieval Wonder, Theories of Curation, and Museum Studies”

Each recipient will receive $5,000 from the William B and Maryloo Spooner Schallek endowment, to support their research needs and studies. The Schallek endowment is funded by a generous donation of $1.34 million to the American Branch of the Richard III Society.  Proceeds from the endowment support an annual $40,000 fellowship to a PhD student and five $5,000 research awards. The program is administered by the Medieval Academy of America in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and application details and deadlines can be found on the MAA’s website.

Since its inception, the Schallek fellowship and awards program has distributed more than $800,000 to graduate students in North America. “These grants have supported original research of budding medievalists”, says Branch chair Susan Troxell, “it is perhaps the single most important contribution of the American Branch to the study of the late medieval period. I heartily congratulate all the winners of the $5,000 awards.”