Other Significant Fellowships
Past Fellows
My time in Durham as a researcher under the Research Fellowship scheme was both congenial and very fruitful. It provided me with access to significant and essential materials that facilitated my project in transformative ways. The library and archives staff were exemplary in their welcome and generous assistance. Living in Durham for one month was also a most pleasant experience. My thanks to all who support the scheme and I commend it to any who are considering making an application.
Rev Dr Robert Fennell
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
I was delighted to be awarded a Lendrum Fellowship to work at the Durham Residential Research Library and to be part of the fantastic research community around these collections. My research would not have been possible without the fellowship, because the books I am working with are specific to Durham Cathedral in the sixteenth century, and offer important clues about what happened there during the Reformation. Durham is enormously fortunate in its collections because such a large proportion of its pre-Reformation books stayed in the region, whether in the Cathedral collections or gathered into the library at Ushaw, and it...
Elizabeth Biggs
Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship (University of York, England)
During my time at Durham University, I have surveyed and studied various South Asian bows and arrows preserved at Oriental Museum. Besides, the study of bows and arrows I have also explored many photographs/images of archers and archery preserved at Palace Green Library that helped me to shape my understanding towards the high skills used to manufacture oriental bows and arrows and also the use of specialized training in archery. Further, the holdings of rare manuscripts and books pertaining to bow-making and archery at Durham Cathedral and Bill Bryson Library enhanced my knowledge in the field of bow-making and the...
Dr Syed Ashraf
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Department of Delhi Archives, New Dehli)
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 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)
The Barker Fellowship at Durham University provided an invaluable space for advancing my research within a dynamic and collegial intellectual community. Following my work on the history of sexual violence, I became increasingly interested in how it intersects with other forms of discrimination—sexual and gender-based, racial, and social—within religious contexts. This led me to explore religious women’s movements and their role in the fight against sexual violence and gender discrimination. During my time at Durham, I deepened my research on the Catholic Women's League of England, which has a particularly rich history in this respect, and its connections with other...
Agnes Desmazieres
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Centre Sèvres-Facultés jésuites de Paris, French)
I had a particularly productive time in Durham, during which I carried out research in the Ushaw College, Cathedral, and University Libraries. This was made possible by the generous assistance of staff at each of these locations, who were swift to understand and accommodate the needs of readers. During my time in Durham, I was fortunate to organise an international conference in collaboration with the Classics Department, for which the beautiful surroundings of the city provided the perfect backdrop.
Simon Smets
Holland Visiting Fellowship (PhD University College London/Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Austira, Austria)
The Durham Residential Research Library Fellowship offered a chance to work with the University’s wonderful collection of early books in a really supportive environment. Between the study spaces, the library and fellowship staff, and especially the cohort of fellows, the month in Durham didn’t just give space to think and write, but offered new connections and lasting friendships. The work I did there inspired new directions in my own research, and is now informing a larger project on the paratextual features of manuscripts and early printed books. This has been a real highlight in my academic career.
Jonathan Zecher
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
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)
My fellowship was a great experience and the working conditions were ideal. I was allotted a host college and made welcome everywhere. As well as working productively in the archives I met an expert on the material I was using, and attended seminars and events. Durham is the perfect thinking environment, and has the cafés to complement it - highly recommended.
Robert Poole
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom)