2024–25 Awarded Visiting Fellowships
Albi Rosenthal Fellows in Music
Summer 2024
Chloe Valenti, Specialist Advisor (Music), National Trust; ‘Music at the Bath Assembly Rooms in the Georgian Era’
Michaelmas 2024
Meike Wilfing-Albrecht, Academy Scientist, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), Department of Musicology, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna/Austria); ‘A Matter of Continental Influence? Egon Wellesz’s Concept of Musicology in Twentieth-Century Oxford’
Candace Bailey, Neville Distinguished Professor, Music Department, North Carolina Central University; ‘Binding Gender with Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain’
Trinity 2025
Jane Moore, Reader in English Literature, Cardiff; ‘Sociable Women: A Reassessment of the Role of Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Song'
Summer 2025
M. Emin Soydaş, Professor, Music Department, Çankırı Karatekin University, Türkiye; ‘Vocal Forms of Turkish Music in Historical Anthologies’
Ann Ball Bodley Fellows in Women’s History
Summer 2024
Emma Parker, Lecturer in Literature and Gender, University of Bristol; ‘Apartheid’s Exiles: South African Women Writers in Britain, 1948-1994’ (split visit, Summer 2024 and Summer 2025)
Michaelmas 2024
Kate Gibson, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, John Rylands Research Institute/Department of History, University of Manchester ; ‘Fostering and Adoption in Britain, 1700-1839’
Leah Price, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, Founding director, Rutgers Initiative for the Book, and Francis Lee Higginson Professor, Harvard University; Victorian Books and their Servants
Hilary 2025
Riley Linebaugh, Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher (History), Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin; ‘‘Caesar’s Wives’: Women and Colonial Secrecy in the British Empire’
Trinity 2025
Emilie Oléron Evans, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History of French Art, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, QMUL; ‘Women Making Art History in Post-War Britain: National and international networks in and around Oxford’
Summer 2025
Jenny Shaw, Associate Professor of History, University of Alabama; ‘The Duchess and the Dandy: Gender, Race, and Spectacle in Britain' Eighteenth-Century Empire’
Bahari Fellows in Persian Arts of the Book
Summer 2024
Minoru Inaba, Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; ‘Study on the historical geography of the pre-imperial Ghorids’ (split visit Summer 2024 and Trinity 2025)
Michaelmas 2024
Daniel Sheffield, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University; ‘Readers of Comparative Religion in Early Modern India: the Manuscript Reception of the School of Doctrines (Dabistān-i Maẕāhib, completed 1650s CE)’
Trinity 2025
Austin O'Malley, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona; ‘Poetic Interlopers: Forgery and Misattribution in the Persian Literary Tradition’
Summer 2025
Seher Agarwala, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History, Dartmouth College; ‘Yoginis in Persianate India: A Visual and Textual Interpretation’
Mohammad Fadaei, Lecturer in Islamic art, faculty of Fine Arts, university of Tehran; ‘Evolution of the Nasta'liq script: A comparative Study of the Bodleian Album (Ms. Laud or.149)’
Farshad Sonboldel, World History and Cultures Librarian, University of California, San Diego Library; ‘Exploring the Politics of Canonization in Persian Manuscripts of the 19th Century’
Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellows in English Literature
Michaelmas 2024
Laura Kirkley, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Newcastle University; ‘The First Full Scholarly Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children (1790), A Creative Adaptation with Illustrations by William Blake’
Molly Murray, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Columbia University; ‘Writing the Prison in Early Modern England’
Summer 2025
Maria Schoina, Associate Professor of English Literature, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; ‘Mary Shelley's Greece’
David Walker Fellows in Early Modern History
Summer 2024
David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; ‘John Locke: Colonial Writings’
Mercedes Cerón, Profesora Ayudante Doctora, Department of History of Art and Fine Arts, Universidad de Salamanca; ‘The collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834): a community of images’
Michaelmas 2024
Luz Martin del Campo, Doctoral Lecturer of Anthropology-Department of Behavioral Sciences, Kingsborough Community College-City University of New York; ‘The Lacandón Rainforest-Indigenous Vernacular Environmental Maps and Tree (Yaxché) Symbolism in Lacanjá Chansayab, Méxican.’
Hilary 2025
Tobias Daniels, Heisenberg-Researcher, Medieval History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich; '"Bundles of Time”: Creating and Perceiving History in Early Print’
Christopher Marsh, Professor of Cultural History, School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, Queen's University, Belfast; ‘Best-selling ballads in early-modern England’
Louise Ryland-Epton, Victoria County History Trusts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire; ‘John Aubrey and the pursuit of the natural world’
Maria Shmygol, Research Fellow (Department of English), University of Galway (Ireland); ‘War, Spectacle, Power, and Print: The Rise of the Pyrotechnic Manual in Early Modern England’
Allison Steenson, Associate Researcher (MSCA Fellow) School of Media, Arts and Humanities (MAH) Department of English, University of Sussex; ‘The Scoto-British Subjects of James I: Literature and Nation Building in Newly United Great Britain, 1603-1617’
Sub-Saharan Africa Fellow
Michaelmas 2024
Manuel Manu-Osafo, Research Associate, Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; ‘Abongo Police: State Control, Diffused Violence, and Civil-Military Relations in Late-Colonial Asante, 1939-45’
Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellows in the History of Science and Communications
Michaelmas 2024
Emily Webster, Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy of Medicine, Durham University; ‘Infectious Ecologies: A Biological History of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces’
Trinity 2025
Azita Ranjbar, Assistant Professor, Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; ‘Women Map the Heavens: Celestial Geography and Cartographic Silences in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period’
Jackie Uí Chionna, Senior Tutor, History Department, University of Galway; ''Passed under the Microscope’: The Selection and Recruitment of Oxford Women Graduates as Code Breakers in the First and Second World Wars’
Queen Jadwiga Fellows in Polish Studies
Michaelmas 2024
Jolanta Mysiakowska-Muszyńska, Research Fellow, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw; ‘Poland in the political imagination of Britain's ruling elite in the years 1918/1919–1926.’
Summer 2025
Anna Cholewa-Purgał, PhD researcher and teacher at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Literary Studies, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa; ‘The soul after death - telonia and eschatology in the Polish writings of Christian mysticism’
Richard Sharpe Memorial Fellow
Michaelmas 2024
Giacomo Pirani, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Trento; ‘Exploring Veneto Laudari in the Bodleian Library.’
Peter Selley Memorial Fellow
Summer 2024
Daniel Vince, PhD Candidate, Contemporary Literature, Canterbury Christ Church University, and book dealer; ‘Laurence Binyon’
Sassoon Fellow in South Asian, Black and Diasporic History
Michaelmas 2024
Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice at Loughborough University; ‘Mapping Women'
Humfrey Wanley Fellows
Michaelmas 2024
Anastasia Stylianou, Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge; ‘The Bodleian Library and England's contacts with the Ottoman Greek world during the seventeenth century.’
Hilary 2025
John-Mark Philo, Lecturer in English Literature, Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia; ‘International Scholars at the Bodleian Library (1602–1702): A Study of the Libri Admissorum’
Sassoon Fellows
Summer 2024
Matthew Aiello, Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows (Medieval English); ‘Marginal Subjectivity and the Lyric Voice of Loss, 1150-1300’
Feray Coskun, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ozyegin University; ‘Geographies and Histories of Ottoman Supernatural Tradition’
Andrew Palmer; ‘Words and Worlds of Wilhelm Müller, 2: The Müller family album, Bodleian MS. German c. 31.’
Saptarshi Mallick, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri (University of North Bengal); ‘William Carey and India’
Michaelmas 2024
Matteo Di Franco, Research Fellow at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Dipartimento di Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche, dell’Esercizio Fisico e della Formazione; ‘Aelius Aristides at the Bodleian: the Curae Secundae by Willem Canter’
Joshua Eckhardt, Professor, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University (USA); ‘Physical descriptions of sources for The Discourse of John Selden, Esq., The Oxford Handbook of Medieval and Early Modern Miscellanies, and the Database of Rare and Unique Poems’
Hilary 2025
Alice Crossley, Senior Lecturer in English Literature (School of Humanities and Heritage), University of Lincoln; ‘Of Hymen and humbug: Valentine Writers and the culture of valentine exchange, c.1780-1880’
Trinity 2025
Ruta Sepetys, Author and Researcher; ‘Czech Historical Identity and the Role of Resistance: the Archive of Shiela Grant Duff’
Eric Weiskott, Professor of English, Boston College ; ‘Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text’
Summer 2025
Benjamin Barootes, Assistant Professor, English programme, School of Arts and Social Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland; ‘John Clanvowe’s The Two Ways, the Wycliffite Bible, and the Piety of the Chaucer Circle’
Sloan Fellow in Photography
Hilary 2025
Beth Saunders, Curator and Head of Special Collections & Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; ‘Enmeshed: Lace and Women’s Labor in Julia Herschel’s A Handbook for Greek and Roman Lace Making (1870)’
Sloan Photographic Arts Fellow
Michaelmas 2024
Adrian Paul Tyler, Photographer and book maker; ‘Book Wreck’
Gale Fellows in Digital Humanities, 2024
Paul Pickering, Director, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University; ‘Australia’s Empire’
Chou Wu, Assistant Professor, Beijing Normal University; ‘Visualization of the Global Communication of Knowledge of Jesuits in the 16th and 17th Centuries’
Learned Society Bodleian Fellows, 2024
BSECS-Bodleian Fellow
Helen Williams, Associate Professor of English Literature and British Academy Innovation Fellow, Northumbria University; ‘Women in The Book Trades, 1695-1830’
Dunscombe Colt Fellow
Matthew Roberts, PhD student, Cambridge University, History of Art; ‘Experiencing England’s changing built environment, 1690–1750’
New Chaucer Society Early Career Fellows
Grace Catherine Greiner, Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University; ‘Translating Paramours: French Literary Love in the English Imagination, c. 1250-c. 1700’
Kelsey Shearman, PhD student, University of Birmingham; ‘The Transformation of the Mirrors for Princes in Britain in the High and Late Middle Ages’
