The 2019 Founders' Prizes were awarded to papers presented by graduate- student members at the 2018 annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, “Memory and Remembrance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” held jointly with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, April 13-15, 2018.
- “Monarch of the Past and the Future: Joachim of Fiore, the Last Emperor, and the Myth of King Arthur’s Return” by Matthew Dentice of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of English ($500 USD)
- “Re-theorizing Colonial Ambivalence in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Literatures” by Jaclyn Carter of University of Calgary, Department of English ($250 USD)