Giving

Help shape future studies of the past!

By giving to Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute, you can sponsor path-breaking research and teaching in Medieval Studies. 

• The Institute’s academic programs train future generations of medievalists. Your gift to the Medieval Institute endowment helps students and teachers pursue their studies.
• Each year, the International Congress on Medieval Studies attracts thousands of scholars and students from all over the world to WMU. Your gift to any of travel awards listed below preserves access to this vital venue for everyone, from local resident to the international community of scholars.
• Medieval Institute Publications promotes multidisciplinary, innovative, premodern scholarship. Your gift to the Medieval Institute Publications gift fund makes its possible to publish cutting-edge research and affordable classroom texts.

The Medieval Institute has several endowment funds, all of which further our mission. The names are listed when you use the "make a gift" button, but we describe their purposes here. 
 

I would like to support:

Research, teaching and students in Medieval Studies

• The Medieval Institute Endowment supports all activities of the Institute, including programs and resources for graduate students, teaching and research.
• The David R. and Georgian R. Tashjian Endowment supports research on early medieval England and manuscript studies, including the Richard Rawlinson Center’s library, Congress speaker and annual Paul E. Szarmach article prize.
• The Tashjian Study Fellowship helps a master’s student in medieval studies pursue research or study about early medieval England or manuscript studies.

The International Congress on Medieval Studies

• The Kathryn M. Karrer Endowment helps graduate students in any field present papers at the Congress.
• The Otto Gründler Memorial Endowment helps emerging scholars from underrepresented regions, particularly Central and Eastern Europe, present papers at the Congress.
• The Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Memorial Travel Grant Fund helps emerging scholars of medieval European art present papers at Congress.
• The Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages Lecture Endowment (endowed in the memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards) supports the annual lecture, presented each year by a distinguished scholar on a topic pertaining to the reception of the culture of classical antiquity in medieval Europe.
• Mostly Medieval Theatre Festival Fund supports performances at the Congress-mostly medieval and mostly theatre-but also diverse premodern artistic works. 

Medieval Institute Publications

• The Medieval Institute Publications Gift Fund helps support the publication of high-quality research in medieval and early modern studies, including monographs and edited collections, classroom texts, peer-reviewed journals and more.