Each year the HEMA Scholar Awards organization will have a new jury panel. The first panel was invited and chosen by the HROARR management, as will members of the new consecutive panels, when needed. An award winner is automatically invited into the panel of the following year and is the primary choice. The goal is to make the panel reflect the whole international community and to make sure that researchers from all around the world are given proper recognition.
The jury of 2015 is
Mr. Tom Leoni, The Order of the Seven Hearts, USA
Awardee of Lifetime Achievement Award of the 2014 HEMA Scholar Awards
Mr. Reinier van Noort, School voor Historische Schermkunsten / Frie Duellister, Netherlands / Norway
Awardee of Best Researcher Award of the 2014 HEMA Scholar Awards
Mr. Jherek Swanger, Salle Saint George, USA
Awardee of Best Researcher Award of the 2014 HEMA Scholar Awards
Mr. Alex Bourdas, Academy of Historical Arts, Scotland
Awardee of Best Instructor Award of the 2014 HEMA Scholar Awards
Dr. Ariella Elema, the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts, Toronto Canada chapter
Academic merits:
PhD in Medieval Studies. “Trial by Battle in France and England“.
A scholler at the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts, Toronto Canada chapter.
Peer reviewer for the last two volumes of the Acta Periodica Duellatorum.
Keynote speaker at the ARMS conference on historical martial arts at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
