ASIMS is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 Four Courts Press Michael Adams Prize for best article or essay in Irish medieval studies is Maeve Callan for her article “Making Monsters Out of One Another in the Early Fourteenth-Century British Isles: The Irish Remonstrance, the Declaration of Arbroath, and the Anglo-Irish Counter Remonstrance,” published in Eolas 12 (2019). She delivered an earlier version of this article in a MEARSCTAPA session on medieval monsters at the 2018 Southeastern Medieval Association annual conference held in Nassau, the Bahamas.

Maeve Callan, a professor of Religion and Women’s and Gender Studies at Simpson College in Iowa, received her PhD in Religion from Northwestern University and her MPhil in Women’s Studies from Trinity College Dublin. The author of two books—The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish: Vengeance and Heresy in Medieval Ireland (Cornell University Press and Four Courts Press, 2015) and Sacred Sisters: Gender, Sanctity, and Power in Medieval Ireland (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), and over a dozen articles. She is currently working on a book on ethnic identity and racism in the British Isles from 1000 to 1400.