At the March 2017 MAP Conference held at Loyola-Marymount University, the following prizes were announced:
Benton Travel Awards:
Natalie E. Latteri, University of New Mexico, for travel to Kalamazoo 2017
William Green, UBC, for travel to MAP 2017
Founders’ Prize:
First Place: Rheagan Martin, “Peregrinations of Parchment and Pewter,” University of Michigan
Two Second Place Awards:
Nikki Malain “Who are you Calling a Pirate? The Origin and Diffusion of the Term corsair in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean,” UC-Santa Barbara, now an independent scholar
Sara Petrosillo, “Falconry as Literary Exchange in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean,” UC-Davis