Jim Falls Paper Prize
In 2001 the members of MAMA created the Jim Falls Paper Prize which is awarded to the best paper delivered at the annual conference by an M.A. or Ph.D. student. There is a monetary award given to the winner (currently $100.00). Students are encouraged to send a copy of their paper as well as social security number, address, by the date designated by that year's host institution to Jim Falls.
The Paper that you will be submitting should be the paper you intend to read at the MAMA XXXII Conference. Be sure to include handouts, etc..
Jim Falls Paper Prize directions
Past winners include:
2008 - Jennifer Culver, St. Louis University
"The Structure of Personal Experience: Rollean Mysticism in Piers Plowman"
2007 – Julian Hendrix, King's College, Cambridge
"The Origins of Monastic Intercession: Thought and Practice, Thought Versus Practice"
2006 – Martha Johnson-Olin, University of Missouri-Kansas City
"'And lat hym care, and wepe, and wrynge, and waille': Chaucer's Clerk as Advocate of Masculine Virtue"
2005 – Cindy Rogers, Oklahoma State University,
“Arming Arthur: The Middle English Inheritance of Arming Scenes from Classical Epics”
2004 - Lesley Allen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Mapping Conversion in Pearl."
2003 - Jason Hardgrave, University of Kansas,
"Pimps, Prostitutes, and Pedophiles: Female Perpetrators of Sex Crimes in Fourteenth-Century Venice"
2002 - Carola Dwyer, San Diego State University,
"^Noch liehter danne got getan': Coveting Armor in Wolfram's Parzival^"
2001 - Marie A. Kelleher, University of Kansas,
"Sicut vir uxor: Clerics' Concubines in the Diocese of Barcelona"