The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain is proud to award the 2024 Barton Memorial Junior Scholar Research Grant to Jessica Minieri of Binghamton University (State University of New York) to support archival research in Barcelona and Perpignan and travel to present at a conference in Palermo this summer. The committee was deeply impressed with Minieri’s record of achievement and the clarity and ambition of her doctoral project entitled “Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crown: Abduction and Imprisonment in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, 1200-1415." These qualities helped Minieri stand out among an unusually large pool of excellent applications.

The committee would also like to recognize, with an Honorable Mention, Claire Dwyer of Columbia University for her strong proposal relating to her doctoral project entitled “Noblewomen’s Networks Across Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iberia."

2024 Prize committee members: Tom Barton, Miguel Gómez, and Marie Kelleher