Benton-Mahoney Award Winners

2026 Winners

 

Aurora Clark, a MA student in History at the University of Calgary, for “Hamwic and the Politics of Liminality: Royal Expansion and Emporia in the Seventh- and Eighth-Century Solent,” March 19, 2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (FobiM) conference in Innsbruck, Switzerland.

Patricia McCall, a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Oregon, for “Crusading in Clermont: The Vision of the First Crusade in Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral,” the 11th conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, in Porto, Portugal, June 29–July 3, 2026.

2025 Winners

Manuel Muñoz García for "A Tantalizing Glimpse: Small Late Medieval Manuscript Fragments at Keio University Library (Tokyo, Japan)" at the ICMS in Kalamazoo, 2025. 

Chloe Peters for "Seeing the Invisible: Finding Medieval Women through the Mnemonic Aspects of Material Culture " at the IMC in Leeds, 2025.

 

Gabriela Chitwood for "Building Yet Again: Levesville's response at Toulouse Cathedral" at the SAH in Atlanta, 2025.

 

2024 Winners

Davide Pafumi, Winner of the 2024 Benton-Mahoney Travel Prize

Chloe Peters, Winner of the 2024 Benton-Mahoney Travel Prize

2023 Winner

Many congratulations to Mairi Stirling Hill for winning the 2023 Mahoney-Benton Award for travel to the 2023 MAP conference to present “Maternal Speech Technologies: Gossip Protocols and the Lying-in Room in Le Fresne and Cheuelere Assigne.”