02/09/2012
The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the University of Pennsylvania Press invite submissions for the SHEAR Manuscript Prize for 2012. The Prize will be awarded to… READ MORE
08/16/2011
Stephen A. Mitchell, author of Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2011. The Cabot award honors faculty at Harvard University… READ MORE
06/28/2011
Congratulations to Susan Hiner. Earlier this month, the Costume Society of America awarded the 2011 Millia Davenport Publication Award to Hiner for her book Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the… READ MORE
05/16/2011
Congratulations to Thomas F. X. Noble, recipient of the 2011 Otto Gründler prize for Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians. The prize was presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies…. READ MORE
04/25/2011
On April 15, the Medieval Academy of America announced that the 2011 Haskins Medal for a distinguished book in the field of medieval studies goes to Caroline Walker Bynum for… READ MORE
03/22/2011
On March 20, the Organization of American Historians presented Heather Murray with the 2011 Lawrence W. Levine Award for best book in cultural history. Murray earned the award for Not… READ MORE
05/20/2010
Historian John Van Engen has received another prize for Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. Van Engen was… READ MORE
01/11/2010
We at Penn Press are proud to spread the news about John Van Engen, professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Late last week, Van Engen received both… READ MORE
05/29/2009
The Canadian Society of Medievalists has selected Siân Echard to receive the 2009 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for her book, Printing the Middle Ages. The prize committee wrote: Siân Echard… READ MORE
04/28/2009
Penn Press is pleased to share the great news about two recent awards for our authors. Barbara Newman received the Haskins Medal for 2009 from the Medieval Academy of America… READ MORE
