Fellows Around the World

Since 2018

The Durham Collections Fellowship programme has transformed from a regional initiative into a truly global network.

Our partnerships now span six continents, connecting scholars and cultural heritage professionals across more than 26 countries and supporting over 128 international fellows.

This growth has enabled groundbreaking collaborative projects, from digitisation initiatives in South Asia to manuscript preservation in Africa. Fellows return to their home institutions as ambassadors for innovative heritage practices, creating lasting impact that extends far beyond individual fellowships.

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Over 100 fellows

2021/22

Barbara Denison

Barker Visiting Fellowship

Shippensburg University, USA

2018/19

Marta Revilla Rivas

2021/22

Hannah Jeans

DRRL Visiting Fellowship

York University, England

2023/24

Dr Kinga Lis

Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

2021/22

Paula Diaz

Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

2018/19

Professor Jeremy Hutton

DRRL Visiting Fellowship

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

2022/23

Svorad Zavarsky

Holland Visiting Fellowship

Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

2021/22

Hannah Yip

PhD Bursary

University of Birmingham, England

2024/25

Tahia Saeed

Barker Visiting Fellowship

Department of Archaeology and Museums, Islamabad, Pakistan

2021/22

Jayne Gifford

Barker Visiting Fellowship

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

2023/24

Mohammed Emam

Barker Visiting Fellowship

Open University of Sudan , Sudan

2025/26

Adam Bridgen

Huntington Fellowship

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Department of English Studies, Durham University,

2022/23

Antonia Pizzey

2018/19

Gieuseppe Guazzelli

Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship

2024/25

Shunsuke Katsuta

Sasakawa Visiting Fellowship

University of Tokyo, Japan

2018/19

Dr Dawn La Valle Norman

DRRL Visiting Fellowship

Australian Catholic University, Australia

2023/24

ProfessorChristian Hesse

Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship

University of Bern, Switzerland

2023/24

Ellen Smith

Holland Visiting Fellowship

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

2022/23

Madeline Potter

Barker Visiting Fellowship

University of Edinburgh, England

2018/19

Sophie Battell

Holland Visiting Fellowship

University of Exeter, England

A broad scope of research

Uranian Poetics. The Tradition...
'From Venice to Durham:...
Neapolitan Art and Collecting...
Bishop Christopher Butler OSB
Death beliefs and practices...
Radicalism and reform in...
English, Scottish and Irish...
Grandmothers Willis, correspondence acts...
Catholic Agency in the...
Old Age as an...
Research on different aspects...
Psalter translations into Middle...
British and Irish Catholicism,...
The role of Slatin...
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF GRAECO-ROMAN...
Catholic Women’s League and...
Veneration of saints in...
Sixteenth-century Catholic writers of...
Archives and Futures of...
The Durham Ox: A...
Early Christian Illuminated Manuscripts
Liberal and ultramontane Catholicism,...
Durand of St. Pourçain...
Personalities, Politics and Power:...
Rethinking the Reform Crisis,...
Robert Wharton’s Rome: The...
A Comparative Approach to...
Works written in Latin...
Grey Collections
English nuns in European...
The Letter Books of...
Gothic in Georgian and...
Petrarch’s discovery of a...
Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
Devotion - shrine Madonnas...
Material on John Henry...
Editing Empire and Archival...
O’Connellite politics in south...
Medieval Theology
Christian Martyr Acts
Reconstructing the everyday life...
Matrydom
Catholics and sequestration in...
Death Enquiry
EM; William Howard's Library
'Fall of Melbourne’s government...
Latin-Aramaic bilingualism among Palmyrene...
“Contagion and Commonsense: Sanitation,...
Mughal Bows in the...
Early modern Catholicism, the...
John The Baptist, Mandean...
Long Reformation 1500–1800
Vincent Eyre Manuscipts: My...
The English College, Lisbon,...
Eighteenth-century English material culture
Sudan Archive
History of Science Printed...
An English Translation with...
EM international Prot –...
Mystical theology and instructions...
Influence of Catgholic theological...
Paratextual and Commentary Strategies...
Clergy and lay Networks...
History of Science at...
Classics. Healam and H-Morley...
British painter Julius Caesar...
The Bookscape of the...
Bishop Joseph Lightfoot Papers
C of HS Confessional...
Philip Sidney Emblematics and...
Paratexts and Hymnbook Production:...
Cremation Society of Great...
The Weather in Modern...
Arab women writers, filmmakers...
British Catholics, Catholic women...
Religious Diaspora in Early...
Monsters on Durham’s Riverbanks:...
Exploring (1) the experiences...
The Last Alexandria
Papers of the 3rd...
Monastic history writing, c.1000-1300
Medieval Books and Modern...
Japanese Animation
Early Chrisianity
The “Convento dos Inglesinhos”,...
Sidonius Apollinaris
'Superabundance of Wordiness and...
Greek presence during English...
Devotion – shrine Madonnas...
Dynastic Politics - looking...
Book History, Portugal, Spain,...

What our fellows say

My time as a Durham Collections Fellow was deeply transformative. The opportunity opened me to so many firsts – first time doing archival research, first time staying in the U.K. for a month, first time embedding with a College structure so deeply with St. Chad’s. I also had an opportunity to volunteer cataloging headstones at a local cemetery during my fellowship. I was able to access archival materials from the Cremation Society of Great Britain to include in my latest book on death equity, and I still have material for forthcoming projects. I am so thankful for the time I...
Staci Zavattaro
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Central Florida, USA)
I was successful in obtaining a Barker Fellowship which allowed me to spend a month researching in the fantastic libraries attached to Durham University. A wonderful month of not just intense research but also I was made very welcome by staff and students and was able take full part in university life. A very rewarding experience.
Professor Jack Cunningham
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom)
I was honoured to be granted a Visiting PhD Bursary at the DRRL. Durham University staff gave me a warm welcome and helped me all throughout my research stay. This fellowship was a great opportunity to work on the Poor Clares Darlington Collection held in Palace Green Library. With the assistance of the archivists and librarians, I was able to consult a great number of manuscripts. These primary sources allowed me to analyse and compare different aspects of female lived spirituality within English Poor Clare convents which is at the heart of my PhD. Last but not least, this award...
Claire Schiano-Locurcio
PhD Bursary (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
I was awarded the Durham Research Library Fellowship in 2022 for two months (May and June). It was a very rewarding time. The kindness of the staff and the helpfulness of the librarians, who always made me feel at home, allowed me to carry on my research fruitfully at Ushaw College Library. Durham is also a vibrant university town and the Durham Research Library Fellowship provides many opportunities for academic networking and exchange with other Fellows.
Valfredo Maria Rossi
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Georgian University, Italy)
The Lendrum Fellowship at the DRRL gave me the opportunity to work extensively with the fantastic archival material of Palatinate Durham in the Palace Green Library. The fact that I was also affiliated with the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies was ideal. I received a very warm welcome here and was able to discuss research intensively with other colleagues. In addition, I very much enjoyed the possibility of unrestricted access to the libraries via the Durham Card. In terms of British academic life, it was very rewarding to get an insight into a college through St Chad's College....
Professor Christian Hesse
Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship (University of Bern, Switzerland)
My DRRL Visiting Fellowship allowed me the time and scope – and, crucially, the financial support – I required in order to initiate a new research project on English northern cathedral communities in the eighteenth century. At every stage of my Fellowship, I had prompt organisational support and tie-ins with other resident Fellows and permanent members of the History and Theology Departments. No less supportive were the staff at Ushaw College and the opportunity for membership of St Chad ‘s College SCR added a much-valued additional dimension of academic collegiality. Above all, it was the helpfulness of library staff in...
Nigel Aston
DRRL Visiting Fellowship (University of Leicester, England)
The nature of my research required that I call up a very large number of rare books, which the staff of the library was extremely helpful with throughout my time in Durham. Lord William Howard’s personal library is a treasure trove for anyone interested to study Elizabethan and Caroline Catholic culture in England
Earle Havens
Holland Visiting Fellowship (John Hopkins University, USA)
I was awarded the Durham Research fellowships twice, in 2017 and in 2019. Both times I had a first-class experience as I could enjoy an excellent staff which helped me from the organization of my journey to my stay in Durham. The archival resources at Ushaw College are outstanding and I could see and collect all the material with ease. I also enjoyed the conferences and seminars organized by the department of history as I learned so much in such a short time. Overall, it has been a wonderful research experience and I’m looking forward to coming back!
Matt Binasco
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy)
My month in Durham was spent researching the papers of Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey as prime minister from 1830 to 1834 at Durham University Library. The Grey papers were particularly useful in my exploration of a north-south frontier during the Irish tithe war of 1830 to 1834 and electoral politics in the reform period by analysing Grey’s correspondence with his two Irish lord lieutenants, the marquess of Anglesey and Marquess Wellesley, their chief secretaries, Edward Stanley and Edward Littleton, and the home secretary Viscount Melbourne. My month in Durham was also a very valuable networking opportunity with the...
Patrick Duffy
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Trinity College, Dublin, Irish)
The Durham Residential Library Fellowships are a particularly good opportunity for independent researchers like me to keep up their research skills and maintain a research profile. During my Barker Visting Fellowship at Durham, I gave a paper on the monograph I had just published, took part in a ‘work in progress’ session, made connections with new colleagues with similar research interests, and reconnected with old friends based at Durham. The focus of my fellowship was the Grey papers in the Palace Green Library, in which I explored correspondence between Richard More O’Ferrall, the Irish Catholic governor of Malta between 1847...
Dr Aidan Enright
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Leeds Beckett, United Kingdom)