Announcements

New SCJ Issue (Vol. 55, no. 1-2)

The new issue of The Sixteenth Century Journal is now available via Chicago Journals! It is the third of four double issues before the journal returns to quarterly publishing in 2026.

Carter Lindberg (1937-2024)

From David Whitford, Past-President:

It is with great sadness that I announce that Carter Lindberg, Professor Emeritus of Church History at Boston University, passed away on Monday, 8 April 2024. Carter served as President of the Sixteenth Century Society in 1979. He is best known for his 1996 textbook, The European Reformations, which changed how many both understood and taught the era. He cared deeply about the social impact of the Reformations, publishing two books on the topic. He also wrote about and thought a great deal about love. He wrote his dissertation at University of Iowa, where he worked with George Forell and Robert Kingdon, on Anders Nygren’s conception of love in his interpretation of Luther. His last monograph, published in 2008 was a Love: A Brief History. He loved and laughed deeply. He was married to Alice for 63 years. They met in high school and began dating their first year of college. She died six weeks ago and Carter began to fade almost immediately. They have three children, Anne, Erika, and Matthew, and five grandchildren, and Carter’s doctoral students also became unofficial members of the extended Lindberg family. People who knew him will well-remember his infectious laugh and his ever-present pipe.

On behalf of his family and his former students, if you wish to honor Carter in some way, we encourage you to donate to the Sixteenth Century Society’s Robert M. Kingdon Prize, which awards travel grants to graduate students so that they can attend the annual meeting of the society. Carter shared Bob’s passion for encouraging graduate students to participate in the life of the society and worked to make it affordable. To donate, please use this link and mention Carter’s name in the notation box.

Thomas Müntzer Society Sponsorship Award

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the radical reformer Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489-27 May 1525), the Thomas Müntzer Society is awarding a sponsorship prize for undergraduates/Master’s students of

500 Euro.

For independently authored papers in German or English, written in the context of Undergraduate or Master’s level studies at colleges or universities (such as seminar papers, term papers or Bachelor’s/Master’s theses), and which deal with the life and work of Thomas Müntzer, his theology, liturgy and language, or with his social environment, the early Reformation network and its opponents, or with various aspects of his 500-year history of reception and impact, including in culture and art.

The Thomas Müntzer Society Prize will be awarded at a public ceremony at the Society's annual meeting in spring 2025. The award winner will be given the opportunity to present the work at this meeting. Publication will be supported by the Thomas Müntzer Society. The prizewinner will also receive an annual membership of the Society.

The paper submitted for the Thomas Müntzer Society Award must have been written within the last three years and must be submitted by email (kontakt@thomasmuentzer.de, keyword: TMG-Förderpreis 2025) no later than 15 December 2024, together with the following documents:

1. summary of the work (maximum two pages)

2. expert opinion of the work (including confirmation that the essay was written in the last three years)

3. curriculum vitae in table form

Note: The Board of the Thomas Müntzer Society will decide on the winner. Further advisors may be involved by the board. The decision is made by simple majority and is not public. The decision cannot be contested and there is no right of appeal.

Contact:

Thomas-Müntzer-Gesellschaft
www.thomasmuentzer.de
kontakt@thomasmuentzer.de

2023 Prize Recipients

Presidents and Editors Award: Professor Kathryn Brammall, Truman State University

Anne Lake Prescott Prize: Thomas A. Brady, University of California, Berkeley

Roland Bainton Prizes

History and Theology: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Stripping the Veil: Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth-Century German (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Literature: Douglas S. Pfeiffer, Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Reference: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clark, and Sarah C.E. Ross (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Art and Music History: Walter S. Melion, Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting (Brill, 2022)

Gerald Strauss Prize: Carla Roth, The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century Switzerland (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize: Odile Panetta, “Heresy and Authority in the Thought of Théodore de Bèze,” Renaissance and Reformation, 45:1 (2022): 33-72

Harold J. Grimm Prize: Sky Michael Johnston, “Accounting for a Fruitful Little Ice Age: Overlapping Scales of Climate and Culture in Württemberg, 1560-1590,” Environmental History, 27:4 (2022): 722-746

Raymond B. Waddington Prize: Lisa Demets, “Manuscripts, Stationers, and Printers: Reading Medieval Chronicles in Early Sixteenth-Century Bruges,” Sixteenth Century Journal, 53:3 (2022): 639-670

Carl. S. Meyer Prize: Katherine Horgan, “"Marlowe and His Ovids: The Scholarly Eroticism of Hero and Leander,” presented at Minneapolis in 2022

Folger Institute Fellowships (Long- and short-term)

Each year the Folger Institute awards research fellowships to create a high-powered, multidisciplinary community of inquiry. This community of researchers may come from different fields, and their projects may find different kinds of expression. But our researchers share cognate interests in the history and literature, art and performance, philosophy, religion, and politics of the early modern world.

Long-term

The Folger Institute offers five, long-term fellowships at $70,000 for the 2024-2025 academic year (approximately $7,777 per month, for a standard period of 9 months). These fellowships are designed to support full-time scholarly work on significant research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.

Please note, for the 2024-25 fellowship year, long-term fellows will have the option to take up to 3 months of their 9-month fellowship virtually. This virtual time may be taken at any point in the fellowship and does not have to be taken concurrently. Applicants may propose any research schedule that best fits their project’s needs.

The deadline for long-term fellowship applications is December 15, 2023.

Short-term

For the 2024-25 fellowship year, short-term fellows will have the option to take their fellowship fully onsite, fully virtual, or a combination of the two. Applicants may propose any research schedule that best fits their project’s needs.

Short-term fellowships support scholars whose work would benefit from significant primary research for one, two, or three months, with a monthly stipend of $4,000. These fellowships are designed to support a concentrated period of full-time work on research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs.

The deadline for short-term fellowship applications is January 15, 2024.

Anne Cruz awarded the Enrique Anderson Imbert Award by the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española.

Con gran alegría compartimos la noticia de la concesión del Premio “Enrique Anderson Imbert” de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española a Anne Cruz, miembro de Bieses.

Este galardón anual tiene por finalidad reconocer la trayectoria de vida profesional de quienes han contribuido, durante varias décadas, con sus estudios, trabajos y obras al conocimiento y difusión de la lengua y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos.

El jurado ha premiado a Anne J. Cruz «por su fértil trayectoria en la investigación, la docencia de grado y postgrado, así como por su vasta y rica producción bibliográfica de reconocida influencia en el mundo académico de los EE.UU. y el extranjero, que contribuyó a renovar el estudio de las letras hispánicas del Siglo de Oro con enfoques interdisciplinarios en los que destacan sus pioneras contribuciones al desarrollo de los estudios de la mujer, tanto en las representaciones literarias de las obras escritas por hombres cuanto en la indagación de la labor literaria de las mujeres de la época, todo ello sólidamente fundado en un ejemplar conocimiento de las poéticas, la historia y la circulación de los discursos en la temprana modernidad de España e Hispanoamérica. Destaca, además, su rol ejemplar como directora de la serie New Hispanisms, que cuenta con más de treinta títulos, y su incansable fervor por la formación de nuevas generaciones de hispanistas en los EE.UU».

¡Enhorabuena, Anne!

Walter Melion Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Walter Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University and former President of the Sixteenth Century Society, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

An announcement of Melion’s election can be found here: https://www.amacad.org/news/2023-member-announcement

Congratulations Walter!

Horacio Sierra Appointed to President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities

Horacio Sierra, a long-time member of the Society and a member of the Sixteenth Century Journal’s editorial board, has been appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by President Biden.

Congratulations Horacio!

Kingdon Prize Funding Announcement

The Sixteenth Century Journal have donated to the Society’s Kingdon Prize endowment on behalf of the Journal. The donation allows us to now begin to offer the Kingdon Prize beginning this year. A description of the Prize is below.
If you wish to donate to the Kingdon Prize, to another prize, or to the Society’s general endowment, please click the donate button on the top of the page.

Robert M. Kingdon Prize

“Self-Portrait as a Lute Player,” Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1615.