2025–26 Awarded Visiting Fellowships

Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellows in Music

Johanna-Pauline Thöne, Postdoctoral Researcher, National University of Ireland Maynooth
‘Scattered Fragments of Medieval English Polyphony: Tracing Histories of Lost Music Books in the Bodleian Library Collections’ (due Summer 2025)

Sarah Koval, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
‘Tuning the Body: Musical Health Regimens in Early Modern England’ (due Trinity 2026)

Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellows in Women’s History

Naomi Pullin, Associate Professor of Early Modern Britain History, University of Warwick
‘Women's Experiences of Solitude in Early Modern Britain’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Rosalind Smith, Chair of English, The Australian National University
‘Early Modern Women's Marginalia, 1530-1660’ (due Trinity 2026)

Jayne Gifford, Associate Professor of Modern History, University of East Anglia
‘Invisible Work: Diplomatic Wives in the Early Twentieth Century’ (due Trinity 2026)

Margarita Savchenkova, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Salamanca
‘Women’s agency in translation history: Ilsa Barea as literary translator, 1940s–1970s’ (due Trinity 2026)

Bahari Visiting Fellows in Persian Arts of the Book

Anita Khaleghi, Assistant Professor, Shiraz University of Arts
‘Critical Edition of "The poetry collection of Baba Faghani Shirazi", based on a neglected manuscript in the Bodleian Library including annotations’

Mostafa Shahiditabar, Faculty member, Imam Sadiq University
'The Orthographic Rules of the Multilingual Poetry Collections of Persia Held at the Bodleian Library: A Cross-linguistic Study’

Syed Naqi Abbas, Assistant Professor, Langat Singh College affiliated with B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur
‘A Study of Composite Manuscripts of Persian Poetry in the Bodleian Library’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature, Boston University
‘Mapping the Reception of Amir Khusraw’s Works’ (due Trinity 2026)

Hossein Sheikh Bostanabad, Assistant Professor, University of Isfahan
‘'Balˁami on Sasanian History: studies on manuscripts of Balˁami’s Tarikhnāma in the Bodleian Libraries’

Byrne Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellows in the History of Science and Communications

Benjamin Turnbull, Lecturer, King's College London
‘Marconi, the Admiralty, and Naval-Industrial Relations 1896-1914’ (due Summer 2025)

Katy Duncan, Postdoctoral Freer Fellow, Royal Institution of Great Britain:
‘Discover200: Legacies of Science Communication at the Royal Institution’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Yijie Huang, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Heidelberg
‘Encounter Follows Fever: How Febrile Diseases Informed Britain of China in the Long Eighteenth Century’ (due Trinity 2026)

Roberta Spada, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano    
‘Corporate Objects and Stories: Narratives About the Marconi Company Through the Biographies of the History of Science Museum Objects’ (due Trinity 2026)

Xiaona Wang, Honorary Fellow, University of Warwick    
‘Academic Politics Across Eurasia: Jesuit Astronomy and the Uses of Chinese Evidence in the Newton Wars’ (due Summer 2026)

Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellows in English Literature

Arden Hegele, Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
‘Byron: A New Portrait’ (due Summer 2025)

Carlisle Yingst, Fellow in Bibliography, Linda Hall Library
‘Ephemeral History and the British Novel, 1720-1850’ (due Summer 2025)

Christopher Murray, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
‘Self-Cultivation: Romantic Discourses of Meditation’ (due Summer 2025)

David Walker Visiting Fellows in Early Modern History

Ercan Akyol, Senior Lecturer, University of Vienna
‘Early Modern Ottoman Epistolary Guides’ (due Summer 2025)

Cumhur Bekar
Assistant Professor of Ottoman History, Social Sciences University of Ankara
‘The Role of William Trumbull in Ottoman-British Relations: An Archival Perspective’
(due Summer 2025)

Michael Powell-Davies, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Birkbeck, University of London
‘The Diaries of William Woodman, Wigmaker of London (1706-1708)’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Wayne Jarrah Sastrawan, Lecturer, Australian National University    
‘Turning Tides: Religious Transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Megan Shaw, Independent Scholar
'A Female Favourite: Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham (1603-1649)' (due Trinity 2026)

Humfrey Wanley Visiting Fellows

Elaine Treharne, Professor, Stanford University
‘Neil Ripley Ker and the Making of Modern British Manuscript Studies’ (due Hilary 2026)

Clarissa Hard, Freelance writer
‘Picture Postcards at the Bodleian’

Peter Selley Visiting Fellow

Thomas Bredehoft, Proprietor, Chancery Hill Books
‘Contextualizing OId English Poetic Binding Fragments’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Queen Jadwiga Visiting Fellow in Polish Studies

Agata Pawlina, Research Assistant, Jagiellonian University    
‘Bobovius’s manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries’ (due Trinity 2026)

Richard Sharpe Memorial Visiting Fellow

Angela Cossu, Postdoctoral researcher, Université de Namur    
‘The Oxford Juvenal and the Beneventan manuscripts of the Canonici collection: Text, paratext and ways of transmission’ (due Trinity 2026)

Sassoon Visiting Fellows

Karla McManus, Associate Professor, University of Regina    
‘Flight of Fancy or Fact? Producing, Circulating, and Viewing Bird Photography as Ecological Knowledge’ (due Summer 2025)

Michael Yeo, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
‘Jungle Ports: Empire and Urbanization in Borneo, 1879–1942’

Peter Lucas, Honorary Research Associate, University of Cambridge
‘Further Studies on the Development of Anglo-Saxon in Early Modern Script and Print with particular attention to Gerard Langbaine the Elder’ (due Summer 2025)

Juliette Bourdier
Associate Professor, College of Charleston
‘Consultation of Parisian Books of Hours from the 15th century’
(due Summer 2025)

Julia Carlson, Associate Professor of English, University of Cincinnati
‘Thomas Clarkson's Anti-Slavery Campaign and the Correspondence of the Thomas Poole Circle’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Tim Reinke-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton
‘William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Leyla Maria Gabriella Livraghi, Research fellow, University of Pisa
'A Medieval Commentary for Renaissance Readers: Benvenuto da Imola’s Comentum on the Divine Comedy in Canoniciani Italiani 100 and 103’ (due Michaelmas 2025)

Brian Drohan, Associate Professor, United States Military Academy - West Point
‘The Peacekeeping Project: Military Intervention, the United Nations, and the Making of the Post-Cold War World’ (due Hilary 2026)

Daniel Manulak, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
‘Anti-Apartheid: A Global History’ (due Hilary 2026)

Ilaria Scaglia, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Aston University
‘Taking Pictures at the Bodleian: A Chapter in the History of Culture, Technology, and Emotions’ (due Trinity 2026)

Nimra Rizvi, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University
‘Loot from Lucknow: Reorienting Collection, Circulation and Knowledge’ (due Trinity 2026)

Alessandra Bucossi, Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
‘Voices of Division: Mapping the East-West Schism through Bodleian Manuscripts’ (due Trinity 2026)

Pavel Sladek, Associate professor of Jewish Studies, Charles University, Prague
‘The Makers of Jewish Books and Their Public, 1505–1625: Trajectories of Transfer of Knowledge’ (due Trinity 2026)

Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library
‘Writing Paper in Shakespeare's England’ (due Trinity 2026)

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
‘The astral sciences in medieval and early modern Italian libraries: the case of the Canonici manuscripts’ (due Trinity 2026)

Sassoon Visiting Fellow in South Asian, Black and Diasporic History

Hannah Elias, Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London
‘Religion and Black Liberation: anti-racist organising and resistance in Britain’s faith communities, 1960-1985’ (due Trinity 2026)

Sub-Saharan African Studies Visiting Fellow

Eugenia Anderson, Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
‘War and Diplomacy: the place of Women in 19th and 20th Century Asante Politics’ (due Summer 2025)

Gale Visiting Fellows in Digital Humanities

Asia Pacific Visiting Fellows

Jenny Kwok, Professor, University of Hong Kong.
‘Reforming the Oxford English School Syllabus in Interwar Britain: A Digital Humanities Approach Using LLMs, RAG and GraphRAG’

John Lai, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
‘Transcultural and Interreligious Encounter: Text Analysis of James Legge’s Translation of the Yijing (Book of Changes)’

North America Visiting Fellows

John McEwan, Assistant Librarian, Digital Humanities, University of Kansas
‘Nothing wasted: using seventeenth century drawings and machine learning to build modern tools for medieval seal identification’

Victoria Van Hyning, Assistant Professor of Library Innovation, University of Maryland
 ‘Expanding the Accessibility of Digital Bodleian Collections for Print-disabled users: A Participatory Design Approach’

Learned Society Bodleian Visiting Fellows

BSECS-Bodleian Visiting Fellow

Xinyi Wen, PhD student, Cambridge University
‘Extra-Illustrating Early Modern Natural History’ (due Summer 2025)

New Chaucer Society Early Career Visiting Fellows

Thomas Sawyer, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
‘Goliardic Networks’ (Trinity 2025)

Stacie Vos, Assistant Professor of English, University of San Diego
‘Women Doing Medieval Studies in the Twentieth Century’ (due Summer 2025)