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The Jim Falls Paper Prize

In 2001, the members of MAMA created the Jim Falls Paper Prize, to be awarded to the best paper delivered at the annual conference by a Graduate student.

The prize includes a monetary award of $100.

Graduate students are encouraged to send a completed copy of their paper along with their name, social security number and address to Shona Kelly Wray.

Deadline for 2011 papers has not been determined.
Please do not submit an entry if you have previously received this award.

The paper you submit should be the paper you intend to present at the MAMA XXXV Annual Conference.

Past Winner Include:
2010   Daniel J. Menold, University of Missouri - Columbia
           "Sacred History: Hagiographical Constructs and the 'Historical' Gilbert of Sempringham"

            Honorable Mention: Michael Wehrman, Yale University
           "Rome and Miracles in the Writings of the Venerable Bede"

2009   James Bennett, Ohio State University
           "The Once and Future Burghers: Social Memory and Civic Identity in Late Medieval St. Albans"

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, Though 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"

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>MAMA Annual Conference XXXV
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