This award has been established to honor the many years of support, service, and enthusiasm for the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association of Michael T. Walton and Phyllis J. Walton. Over the twenty-seven years he was with us, Michael Walton gave twenty-four papers, some joint with his companion in life and scholarship, his wife Phyllis. He organized two of our conferences (2000 and 2011); he drafted our Constitution; he helped guide our transition from a hard-copy to an electronic journal; and from 1996- 2013, he brought continuity to our Board. Phyllis Walton has likewise served the RMMRA in many different and essential capacities, including as treasurer, and with Michael wrote four distinguished monographs. This award is meant to recognize the particular informal support both Waltons have given to junior scholars at the RMMRA conferences and elsewhere.
The Michael and Phyllis Walton Awards will be available to graduate students in any medieval or Renaissance field of study who are presenting papers at the annual Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference and who have not defended their degree-granting projects at the time of the meeting. There will be a maximum of four awards for each conference: $250, which will be sent out in check form before the conference, plus waiver of the registration and RMMRA membership fees.
Applications are due 6 weeks before the conference. Applicants should be prepared to submit an abstract, their completed paper, a reflection on the importance of the conference to their project, and a CV.
The RMMRA Harry Rosenburg Travel Award for Non-tenured Scholars will be available to post-graduate medieval and Renaissance scholars with insufficient institutional funding working in any field of study who are presenting papers at the annual Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference and who have completed a doctorate but have not been granted tenure prior to the time of the meeting. There will be a maximum of four $250 awards for each conference, sent out in check form before the conference to defray the costs of travel to and lodging at the conference, plus waiver of the registration and RMMRA membership fees. (Graduate students are not eligible for this award because of the RMMRA award dedicated to supporting graduate students at the annual meeting, the Michael T. and Phyllis J. Walton Award.)
Applications are due 4 weeks before the conference. Applicants should be prepared to submit an abstract, their completed paper, a reflection on the importance of the conference to their project, and a CV.
This award was established to honor the memory of Allen DuPont Breck, University of Denver history professor and founder of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Extraordinarily gifted as a teacher, he was also creative in his vision, particularly in his idea that an organization of medievalists and Renaissance scholars was needed in this region. Accordingly, in 1966 he convened a meeting in his living room in which he proposed the founding of the RMMRA, as well as a corresponding scholarly journal. The fledgling organization held its first meeting at the University of Denver in 1968, organized around the theme of “The Bishop in Medieval and Renaissance Society.” The Association’s Bylaws were established in 1980 and published that year in the first issue of Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, along with Allen’s review of the history of the organization to that point. The RMMRA is grateful for his convivial vision of “a proper forum for the sharing of scholarly study of one of the most significant periods of human history.”
The Allen DuPont Breck Award is given for the best paper given by a junior scholar (from graduate students to assistant professors, including independent scholars and adjunct faculty at equivalent rank). The Breck award carries an award of $300, the option of publication in the Association’s journal Quidditas, and recognition at the annual awards ceremony.
Applications are due following the annual conference according to the date set by the RMMRA President. For 2024, Applications are due by September 15, 2024. Applicants should be prepared to submit their presented paper and a CV.
This award was established to honor the memory of Delno C. West, professor of history at Northern Arizona University, and one of the most dedicated early members of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Professor West, who was Chair of the Department of history at Northern Arizona and Director of the Honor’s Program, was a president of the Association and the general coordinator of three annual meetings that were held in Flagstaff and at the Grand Canyon. His teaching centered on medieval Europe and he published widely on the history of Christianity. His numerous books and articles include The Librio de las Profecias of Christopher Columbus (1991). He was a fine scholar and a good friend of the Association.
The Delno C. West Award is given for the best paper given by a senior scholar (associate professors, professors, and other long-standing scholars). The West Award includes recognition at the following year’s awards ceremony, a handsome plaque, and the option of publication in the Association’s journal Quidditas.
Applications are due following the annual conference according to the date set by the RMMRA President. For 2024, Applications are due by September 15, 2024. Applicants should be prepared to submit their presented paper and a CV.
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