2026–27 Awarded Visiting Fellowships

Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellows in Music

Dr Keri Hui, Hong Kong Baptist University; ‘Furious Music: Hayes and The Passions’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr David Roche, Aberystwyth University; ‘Connecting Wales: Paths Towards the Protection and Growth of Welsh Musical Heritage’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Adrian So, Royal Holloway, University of London; ‘The origin of Johann Pachelbel’s church music manuscripts from the Tenbury Collections’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Dr Daniele Sofer, University of Dayton; ‘Elizabeth Maconchy meets Anne Ridler’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Dr Gabriele Taschetti, University of Padua; ‘Incomplete Italian Music (c.1580–1650) in the Bodleian Library’ (expected Summer 2027)
Dr Eva Veselovska, Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences; ‘Holy Women and Liturgical Music in the Middle Ages in Sources from Slovakia’ (expected Summer 2026)

Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellows in Women’s History

Dr Federica Coluzzi, University of Warwick; ‘Archives of Memory: Recovering the Matrilineal Legacy of Dante Studies in the Bodleian Libraries’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Anouska Lester, ‘University of York; Women Curating Shakespeare: Shaping the Value of Heritage in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1616-1945’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Kimberley McLean-Fiander, University of Victoria, British Columbia; ‘A Northamptonshire Noblewoman: The Letters, Life, and World of Susan Yelverton, Baroness Grey of Ruthin (1634–1676)’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Chukwuemeka Oko-Otu, Independent Scholar; ‘Mining, Conflict and Women's Livelihood in British Colonial Southeastern Nigeria 1909-1967’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Serena Vantin, University of Bologna; ‘Translating 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' into Italian: A Critical and Contextual Study’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)

Bahari Visiting Fellows in Persian Arts of the Book

Dr Fariba Azhari, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Ardebili Mohageg University (Iran); ‘Lenient Aniconism: Shiʾi and Sephardi Influences in Illustrated Judeo-Persian Manuscripts’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Tomoko Morikawa, University of Tokyo; ‘Beyond Doctrine: Everyday Knowledge and Cultural Imagination in Safavid Iran’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Laetitia Nanquette, University of New South Wales, Sydney; ‘Paratexts and Publishing Culture in Iran (1940-2025)’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr. Seyed Alireza, Bard Early College, Brooklyn; ‘Readings for Love: Emotions, Community, and Book Culture in the Medieval Islamic World’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Behzad Zerehdaran, University of Marburg; ‘Unpublished Persian Biblical Translations at Oxford: Critical Editions of Two Psalters, The Book of Judith, and Three Gospels’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)

BSECS-Bodleian Visiting Fellow

Ms Amrapali Sharma, University of Delhi; ‘Daniel Defoe and Plague Discourse in the Long Eighteenth Century’ (expected Summer 2026)

Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Visiting Fellows in English Literature

Prof Claire Connolly, University College Cork; ‘Maria Edgeworth at the interface of blue, environmental and plant humanities’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Georgia Toumara, Early Career Researcher; ‘Sir James Rennell Rodd’s Poetic Wanderings’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)

David Walker Memorial Visiting Fellows in Early Modern History

Professor Lloyd Bowen, Cardiff University; ‘Language, Labels and Making Political Communities in Britain and its Empire, c.1642-c.1714’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Samuel Fullerton, University of North Texas; ‘Ridicule and Revolution: Libellous Politics and the English Civil Wars’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Dr Tristan Griffin, Independent Scholar; ‘Copies of Sir Walter Ralegh’s Letters in the Bodleian Library: Production, transmission and literary-political afterlives’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Elizabeth Hines, Johns Hopkins University; ‘War in the Time of Anglo-Dutch Empire’ 
Dr Pawel Maciejko, Johns Hopkins University; ‘Sabbatai Tsevi: A Reluctant Messiah’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Professor Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield; ‘Hidden Authors and Invisible Books in the Bodleian Library’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Prof Stefano Villani, University of Maryland; ‘Translating Irenicism: Sarpi, Bedell, and the Italian Translation of Edwin Sandys’s Relation of the State of Religion’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)

John Sayers Visiting Fellows in Ephemera

Dr Dennis Duncan, UCL; ‘Blank Forms in the Long Eighteenth Century’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Richa Mishra, Nirma University, India; ‘Routes of Care: Ayahs, Memsahibs, and Ocean Liner Histories in the Bodleian Collections, 1890–1939’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)

Humfrey Wanley Visiting Fellows

Dr Matthew Chambers, Jagiellonian University (Krakow); ‘“Merely a Bookseller’s Catalogue”: Images of Volumes in British Auction and Bookseller Catalogues’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Sara Charles, University of London; ‘The manuscript makers of Catte Street in the thirteenth century’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Matthew Firth, Flinders University; ‘The Anglo-Saxon Past in Medieval Popular History: The Prose Brut’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Professor Cillian O'Hogan, University of Toronto; ‘Manuscripts and early printed editions of Prudentius at the Bodleian Libraries’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)

Lewis Carroll Visiting Fellow

Dr Alison Halsall, York University, Toronto; ‘Lewis Carroll: Early Transmedial Storyteller’ (expected Summer 2026)

Byrne Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellows

Mr Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, University of Leeds; ‘Re-visiting early 20th-century Oxford Biology during the age of the 21st-century ‘New Biology’: Origins, Significance and Legacies’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Professor Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College; ‘Sensible correlation: Recognizing association at the turn of the twentieth century’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Dr Rodrigo Rivero, Adolfo Ibáñez University (Chile); ‘Wireless Frontiers. Marconi Technology and the Territorial Integration of Patagonia in Chile, 1890–1925’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Dr Pierre Von-Ow, University of St Andrews; ‘Other Imaginations: Nicholas Saunderson's Lectures on Optics and the Rainbow’ (expected Summer 2026)

Richard Sharpe Memorial Fellow

Dr Sofia Orsino, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ‘Travelling School Booklets: A Codicological and Historical Study of Canon. Class. Lat. 201 and Canon. Misc. 281 from Northern France to the Veneto’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)

Sassoon Visiting Fellows

Dr Graham Barrett, Durham University; ‘Signing Power: Attending and Enacting the Councils of the Church in Visigothic Iberia’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr Amy Burnett, University of Nebraska; ‘Bibliography of Erasmus Imprints, 1495-1536’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Zachary Dorner, University of Maryland; ‘Caring for the Precariat: Health in an Age of Uncertainty’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Piruza Hayrapetyan, Consultant; ‘Manuscripts as Gateways to Apocalyptic Imagination: What the Bodleian Witnesses of the Apocalypse of the Theotokos Reveal’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)
Professor Margaret Kelleher, University College Dublin; ‘Manuscript to/from Print: researching the transitions between manuscript and print culture in eighteenth-century Irish literary history’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Maja Kominko, Independent researcher; ‘The Lives of Books: History of Syriac Manuscript Preservation in the Middle East’ (expected Summer 2026)
Dr William Little, Ohio State University; ‘Humanist Encounters with the Latin Classics in the Bodleian Library: From Annotation to Creative Imitation’ (expected Trinity Term 2027)
Ms Martyna Osuch, University of Warsaw; ‘Intriguing or Ignored? Readers’ Perceptions of Poland in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Printed Sources’ (expected Summer 2026)
Prof Robert Poole, University of Lancashire; ‘Global history at the crossroads: Arnold J. Toynbee and the cold war’ (expected Hilary Term 2027)
Dr Adam Quibell, Zhejiang University; ‘The Manuscript Remains of the Pansophist and Ecumenist John Dury (1596-1680) in the Bodleian Library's Collections’ (expected Summer 2027)
Dr Émilie Roffidal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Toulouse University; ‘Obelisks as Transnational Objects in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Circulation, Adaptation, and Meaning’
Dr Nailya Shamgunova, University of East Anglia; ‘Understanding Russia in Early Modern England and Scotland’ (expected Michaelmas Term 2026)

Sassoon Visiting Fellow in South Asian and Black History

Dr Florence Seemungal, University of the West Indies Global Campus; ‘The Politics of Resistance and Implementation of the Rope and the Whip in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Leeward Islands, early 19th century to 1975’ (expected Summer 2026)

Sub-Saharan African Studies Visiting Fellow

Dr Tracey Muradzikwa, University of Johannesburg; ‘A Feminist Critique of Solidarity and Mobilisation for Exiled Women During the Liberation Struggle of Zimbabwe’ (expected Summer 2026)