Other Significant Fellowships
Past Fellows
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 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)
Robert's Wharton's Rome. The Impact of Roman Art in the North-East of England. During my stay in Durham I've worked closely with Prof. Stefano Cracolici and study the tour journals and letters of Rev. Robert Wharton who came to Rome in 1775 and also his correspondence to Rev. Thomas Brand regarding his stay in Rome in 1789-1794. The main question driving the project concerns the exploration of a network of social contacts, patterns of cultural exchange and mutual relation across different nationalities and confessions that only the concerted consultations of several archives allows to recreate. An in-depht analysis of Warton's...
Professor Carla Mazzarelli
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Università della Svizzera italiana,, Italy)
The fellowship was excellent – the resources at Ushaw were exceptional and really helpful to my work.
Dr Karly Kehoe
Holland Visiting Fellowship (St Mary ‘s University, Canada)
Durham Barker Fellowship has been an unforgettable experience, from beginning to end. The fellowship enabled me to consult invaluable archival materials in an inspiring environment and to further my research. My work was facilitated by the library staff, who were very kind and helpful throughout my stay. Apart from enabling me to conduct my research project (Monsters on Durham’s Riverbanks: Bertram Colgrave’s Notebooks on OE and ME Poems), the fellowship also gave me the opportunity to meet the other fellows as well as members of Durham University. The exchange of ideas which ensued was incredibly enjoyable and productive.
Ivana Bicak
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Bilkent University, Turkey)
I am deeply grateful for my Lendrum Book Fellowship, which has offered me a truly transformative research experience. The expansive time and space offered by the Fellowship has enabled me both to pursue my planned archival project in depth, and to discover new and unexpected pathways for the future. This will lead to several outputs and, I hope, some future projects and collaborations related to early books and manuscripts at Durham Cathedral and Durham University. My heartfelt thanks to the Lendrums for their generosity.
Mary Ann Lund
Lendrum Book Visiting Fellowship (University of Leicester, UK)
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)
“I am an historian of medieval philosophy who was awarded a Lord Crewe Fellowship to work on the topic of theology as a science in Durand of St. Pourçain’s commentary on the Sentences. The subject seems obscure, but it is of great historical importance because it was out of debates over whether theology counts as an Aristotelian demonstrative science that developments in epistemology and cognitive psychology took place in the fourteenth century that would lay the foundations for the modern scientific method. The volume on which I was working is housed in the Bamburgh Rare Books Library at Durham, which...
Peter Eardley
Lord Crewe Visiting Fellowship (University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada)
I was most grateful to receive a Holland Visiting Fellowship in the Spring of 2020. The research facilities it offered were just what I needed, giving me space and time to work undistractedly on a long projected study of Bishop Christopher Butler, whose family papers are in Durham University Library’s Special Collections, and bring it to near completion. I am expecting the Weldon Press to publish the study in late Spring or Summer this year.
Peter Phillips
Holland Visiting Fellowship
I was pleased to be awarded a DRRL Visiting Fellowship to undertake research on Sir John Marshall ‘s one-hundred-year-old photographic collection now preserved at the Oriental Museum. The Fellowship provided me with an excellent opportunity to understand the provenance of Buddhist sculptures preserved in Peshawar Museum Collection (Pakistan) and to compare the sculptures with others at important Buddhist sites in the Gandhara region and across the Indus in Taxila Valley. I was also able to study the present state of conservation of some of the objects now preserved in the different museums of Pakistan thanks to this photographic collection, as...
Tahir Saeed
DRRL Visiting Fellowship (Department of Archaeology and Museums, Islamabad)