2023–24 Awarded Visiting Fellowships
Sub-Saharan African Studies Fellowship
Maxmillian Julius Chuhila, Senior Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam
Topic: Expanding Frontiers: History, Culture and Belonging on the Slopes of Kilimanjaro, ca.1920s
Ann Ball Bodley Fellowship in Women’s History
Anna Jamieson, Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London
Topic: “A Touch of the Blue Devils”: Women, Mental Health and Self-Care in England, 1740-1860
Virlana Shchuka, Independent Scholar
Topic: Elizabeth Hervey’s Gothic Networks and Eighteenth-Century Domestic Violence
Stacie Vos, Assistant Professor of English, University of San Diego
Topic: Emma, Christina and Gunhilda: The Modern Enclosures of Female Medievalists 1901-1950
Albi Rosenthal Fellows in Music
Anselm Heinrich, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow
Topic: Music in Britain During the Second World War
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott, Teaching Assistant, Royal Holloway University of London
Topic: Unlocking the Blount Music Collection
Maximilian Rosenthal, University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
Topic: A Composer’s Finances: Investigating Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Account Books
Alon Schab, Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa
Topic: Rethinking the score of Henry Purcell’s Opera King Arthur (1691)
Jason Stoessel, Associate Professor, University of New England
Topic: Ciconia’s Padua: An Early Fifteenth-Century Emotional Community of Humanists and Musicians
Leonardo Julio Waisman, Investigador Principal CONICET
Topic: The villancico chapbooks in the Bodleian Library: index, concordances, and musical settings
Albi Rosenthal Fellowship in Music – call for composers
Can Bilir
Topic: Missed Songs of Josefine
Bahari Fellows in the Persian Arts of the Book
Nahid Assemi, Director of Operations, Iran Heritage Foundation (London)
Topic: Research into archives of Mirza ʿAli Khan Amin al-Dawlah (1844-1904)
Paul Losensky, Emeritus Professor, Indiana University
Topic: Early Modern Persian Poetry: Fayzi and Toghra
Fateme Montazeri, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley
Topic: Qasidahs by Hafiz: A Neglected Poetic form in the Bodleian Persian Manuscripts
Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellows
Matt Parker, Independent Scholar
Topic: Listening across scales: A cultural ecology of telecommunications in a wireless world
Beaty Rubens, Freelance radio producer and writer
Topic: What Is Home Without a Radio?
Tal Zalmanovich, Research Associate, University of Haifa
Topic: Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990
Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellows in English Literature
Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Topic: 21st-Century Oxford Authors: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Emma Clery, Professor, Uppsala University
Topic: A new scholarly edition of the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
David Walker Memorial Fellows in Early Modern History
Steffi Dippold, Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University
Topic: Plain as in Primitive: Thinking the Native in Colonial America
Christopher Gillett, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton
Topic: Catholicism and Revolution in the British World, 1630-1673
Victoria Leonard, Research Fellow, University of London
Topic: Orosius and The Rise of Printing in Early Modern Europe
Peter Lindfield, Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Topic: Faking Our Past: History, Literature, and Materiality
Emily Rowe, Lecturer, King's College London
Topic: Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp
Humfrey Wanley Fellows
Dario Pecoraro, Post-doctoral fellow, Università degli Studi di Udine
Topic: Manuscripts of the Guadagni Library in the Canonici Collection
Peter Selley Fellow
Peter Kidd
Topic: The Illuminated Cuttings of William Young Ottley
Sassoon Fellows
Zaib un Nisa Aziz, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Topic: Freedom After Freedom: A Global History of the Abolition of Indentured Labour in the British Empire
Pippa Catterall, Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
Topic: Prime Ministerial Strategy and Macmillan’s Last Grand Design 1959-1963
Megan Cook, Associate Professor, Colby College
Topic: Afterwords: Middle English in Early Modern England
Evi Heinz, Research Associate, University of Münster
Topic: James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Casanova Society
Ahuva Liberles-Noyman, Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
Topic: A Rabbi's notebook as a window to Jewish heritage from late medieval Regensburg
Agust Nieto-Galan, Professor of History of Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Topic: Helping Refugee Scholars: The “Society for the Protection of Science and Learning” and the Fight for Freedom of Thought and Study (1933-1956)
Sara Norja, Post-doctoral researcher, University of Turku
Topic: Uncovering Alchemical Manuscripts
Agata Paluch, Research Associate, Free University of Berlin
Topic: Jewish Recipe Books as Epistemic Objects: Between Learned and Vernacular Knowledge-Making in Premodern Central and Eastern Europe
Derek Ryan, Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
Topic: The Bloomsbury Bookshop: Birrell & Garnett Ltd and Modernist Book Culture
Harry Spillane, Supervisor in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge
Topic: Biblical Plurality in Early Modern England
David Torollo, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Complutense University of Madrid
Topic: Unearthing Judeo-Arabic Wisdom Texts
Christine Walker, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Topic: Imperial Kin: families at the centre of imperial history
Sloan Fellow in Photography
Donna Brett, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
Topic: Modernist Photobooks, Propaganda and the Everyday
Elizabeth Watkins, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds
Topic: Tutankhamun: Colourisation and the Photographic Archive
BSECS-Bodleian Fellow
Sarah Wride, Tutor University of York
Topic: Words and Means: Maria Edgeworth and the Woman Writer as Legislator, 1795-1848
Dunscombe Colt Research Fellow
Christopher Garibaldi, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Topic: The Royal Palaces at Newmarket from 1609 to 1728
