{"id":265,"date":"2013-08-21T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/wp\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:40:17","slug":"travel-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hagiographysociety.org\/?page_id=265","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travel Award to Support Scholars in Need<\/h3>\n

Award Deadline:\u00a0 February 24, 2025<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recognizing the decreasing levels of funding available to scholars, the Hagiography Society is making a one-time award to support under-funded scholars attending the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.\u00a0 Our hope is to inspire the establishment of a permanent award in parallel with the Reames Award (for graduate students).\u00a0 Donations welcome!<\/p>\n

The award will provide up to $1,000 to be used toward registration, travel, lodging, and meals while attending the ICMS<\/strong><\/span> in person to present a paper. The winner will also be granted a free two-year membership in the Hagiography Society.<\/p>\n

Eligibility:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Scholars who are Hagiography Society members, have completed all requirements (including defense of a dissertation) for a PhD (or equivalent) prior to May 1st of the current academic year, and do not have adequate funding to attend the ICMS at Kalamazoo are eligible to apply if their paper, on a topic involving hagiography, has been accepted for inclusion on a regular panel (not a roundtable or other format) in the program of the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI at the time of application, and if they will be attending the Congress in person.\u00a0 They are also expected to attend the annual Hagiography Society Business Meeting held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/p>\n

Application:\u00a0<\/strong>Please download the application form linked below.\u00a0 Please submit this form, combined with a current curriculum vit\u00e6 in a single PDF with your last name in the document name, to the Secretary\/Treasurer (secretary at hagiographysociety.org) of the Hagiography Society by February 24.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> Applicants will be informed of the results by March 7.<\/p>\n

HSScholarsInNeedAwardForm (Word)<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 HSScholarsInNeedAwardForm (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hagiography Society Article Prize<\/h3>\n

This prize will be awarded to a scholarly essay or article written on any disciplinary subject that makes an outstanding contribution to the study and understanding of saints, holy men and women, virtue traditions, and the concept of sanctity in ideational, literary, artistic, and sociohistorical dimensions in the pre-modern period. Articles concerning all geographies and religious systems are eligible. The monetary value of the prize is $300. The author of the article must be a member of the Hagiography Society by the time of the article\u2019s submission. All essays and articles that have been published in 2023 and 2024 are eligible for the prize.<\/p>\n

Please send an electronic copy of your published submission to Laura A. Smoller (laura.smoller@rochester.edu). The winner will be announced in fall 2025 and is encouraged to attend the Hagiography Society Business meeting at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in May, 2026 for the formal presentation of the award.\u00a0\u00a0Submissions are due by January 31, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This prize is awarded biennially, in alternation with the Book Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n

Past Winners of the Article Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023- Austin Powell, \u201cManuscript Miscellanies, Jerome\u2019s Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy,” Renaissance Quarterly<\/i> 74.3<\/a> (2021): 722-762.<\/p>\n

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The Hagiography Society Book Prize<\/h3>\n

The Hagiography Society book prize is awarded to a scholarly first book written on any disciplinary subject that makes an outstanding contribution to the study and understanding of saints, holy men and women, virtue traditions, and the concept of sanctity in ideational, literary, artistic, and sociohistorical dimensions in the pre-modern period. Books concerning all geographies and religious systems are eligible. The monetary value of the prize is $500. The author of the book presented to the competition must be a member of the Hagiography Society by the time of the book\u2019s submission. Each year, the prize committee will consist of three scholars called upon by the Society to fulfill the task of awarding the prize. The committee will not include anyone currently serving the Hagiography Society in an official capacity. Submissions for the next prize are for books published in 2024 and 2025. Deadline for submission: January 31, 2026<\/strong>. Please arrange for three print copies of your book\/manuscript to be sent by January 31, 2026 to Laura A. Smoller; Department of History; University of Rochester; Rush Rhees 369A; 755 Library Road; Box 270070; Rochester, NY 14627. The winner will be announced in fall 2026 and is encouraged to attend the Hagiography Society Business meeting at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in May, 2027 for the formal presentation of the award.<\/p>\n

This prize is awarded biennially, in alternation with the Article Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n

Past Winners of the Book Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2024 – Steven Rozenski,\u00a0Wisdom’s Journey: Continental Mysticism and Popular Devotion in England, 1350-1650<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).<\/p>\n

2022 – Donna Trembinski, Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and <\/em>Lives of Francis of Assisi<\/em><\/a> (University of Toronto Press, 2020).<\/p>\n

2020 – Roy Flechner, Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of\u00a0 <\/em><\/a><\/span>Ireland\u2019s Patron Saint<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

2019 – Maya Maskarinec, City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages<\/em><\/a> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).<\/p>\n

2018 – Catherine M. Mooney, Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance <\/em><\/a>(University of\u00a0Pennsylvania Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

2017 – Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches<\/em><\/a>, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 55 (University of California Press, 2015).<\/p>\n

The Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies<\/h3>\n

Named in honor of the beloved founder and long-time leader of the Society, the award now provides up to $1000 to be used toward registration, travel, lodging, and meals to present a paper at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. The winners will be granted a free two-year membership in the Hagiography Society.<\/p>\n

Eligibility<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Students who are Hagiography Society members are eligible to apply if their paper, on a topic involving hagiography, has been accepted for inclusion on a regular panel (not a round table or other format) in the program of the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, at the time of application, and if they will be enrolled in a graduate program (anywhere in the world) at the time of that Congress.\u00a0\u00a0They are also expected to attend the annual Hagiography Society Business Meeting held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.<\/p>\n

Application<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Please submit an application form, combined with a current curriculum vit\u00e6 in a single PDF with your last name in the document name, by November 15 to the Secretary \/ Treasurer<\/a> of the Hagiography Society.<\/p>\n