Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) was established in 1981 by the Arizona Board of Regents as a state-wide, tri-university research unit that bridges the intellectual communities at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona.

Our mission is to enable and promote the most expansive, creative, and daring scholarship in medieval and renaissance studies. We do this not only by fostering a vibrant intellectual community for the faculty at our three universities, but also by publishing forward-looking, vanguard research through our in-house press.

ACMRS promotes work that is historically grounded and theoretically expansive and has become a leader in transforming the research about and teaching of premodern literature, history and culture. We have changed the types of dialogues we have in premodern studies, and we have made the dialogues much more inclusive. In a moment when many scholars, teachers and institutions are looking for inclusive research, pedagogy and historical information, ACMRS is a guiding light and a source of both leadership and inspiration.