Membership in the DVMA
To renew your membership, please print out a copy of the form or download it, fill it out and enclose a check payable to the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, and send it to the address provided on the form.
Library Privileges
Your regular membership entitles you to half-price courtesy privileges at the University of Pennsylvania Library. (Note, however, that the $10 student membership rate does not cover library-borrowing privileges.)
Penn has stipulated the conditions under which we might take advantage of this privilege, conditions to which we can make no exception. To qualify: (1) print out, or download, the additional form, giving a brief description of your research field or specific project; (2) return the completed membership application and privileges form, with your dues check, by 1 December 2008. The library will not honor applications after the middle of December.
You will be eligible to buy your privileges at the Penn Circulation desk after 1 January 2009 and they will be valid through 30 December 2009. The cost remains $200.
Because income from dues barely covers our current expenses, members are asked to consider making an additional contribution. In the past your gifts have allowed us to offer a travel grant to students and independent scholars, as well as to expand the geographical range of the speakers we invite. To help the DVMA continue to thrive, we need your help in bringing in new members. Please encourage a friend or colleague to join our organization and to attend the next meeting.
Announcements
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Travel Grant Application 2008-2009
The DVMA offers a grant in support of research to graduate students, independent scholars, or part-time/ temporary faculty who are not eligible for research funds from their institution. Applicants must already be members of the Association (joined or renewed during calendar year 2007). Past recipients of the grant are not eligible.
To apply for the DVMA Travel Grant for 2008-2009, contact Lynn Ransom, Vice President of the DVMA. Applications must include your CV; a brief statement of the purpose for the travel (including name of conference and paper title, or research proposal); and a disclosure of any other funding for which you have applied or plan to apply. Either must have taken place, or will take place, between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009 (that is, this academic year and the coming summer). The Secretary will be happy to answer any questions about the grant, or eligibility for the grant:
Applications are due by November 1, 2008, and the recipient will be announced at our meeting on December 13 at Princeton.
Officers, 2008-2009
- President
Larry Nees, University of Delaware
- Vice President
Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
- Secretary
Matthew Shoaf, Ursinus College - Treasurer
Mark Darby, Temple University