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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

ACMRS enablse and promotes the most expansive, creative, and daring scholarship in premodern studies. We do this not only by fostering a vibrant intellectual community for scholars around the world, but also by publishing forward-looking, vanguard research through our in-house press. ACMRS promotes work that is historically grounded and theoretically expansive, with the aim of advancing dialogues that reach into the present moment and point us to different, more inclusive, futures. 

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RaceB4Race ®

RaceB4Race is an ongoing conference series and professional network community by and for scholars of color working on issues of race in premodern literature, history, and culture. RaceB4Race centers the expertise, perspectives, and sociopolitical interests of BIPOC scholars, whose work seeks to expand critical race theory.

Bridging many traditional disciplinary divides, RaceB4Race not only creates innovative scholarly dialogues, but also fosters social change within premodern studies as a whole.

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ACMRS Press

ACMRS Press publishes the most forward-looking, vanguard research in premodern studies. Our publications include projects that are historically grounded and theoretically expansive, with the aim of fostering dialogues that reach into the present moment and point us to different, more inclusive, futures.

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The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies offers a variety of resources for faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students, and independent scholars in Arizona and beyond. Our support of premodern scholarship ranges from residencies, travel funding, publications, and more. 

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