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I am deeply grateful for the amazing research opportunities offered me by the University of Durham and made possible by the Lendrum Visiting Fellowship. I have profited from the time spent in Durham in multiple ways. First and foremost, the access to the precious and vast library resources enabled me to progress with my research plans in a manner that would have been impossible otherwise. The Palace Green Library, where I spent most of my time is located in the historical and heritage centre of Durham and one could not imagine a better place to read and analyse medieval and...
Dr Kinga Lis
Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Barbara Jones Denison is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Shippensburg University, where she was the director of the interdisciplinary Organizational Development and Leadership graduate program, department chair of Sociology and Anthropology, and director of the undergraduate online degree completion program. With a 1985 PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, Denison has worked professionally within sociology as well as a number of interdisciplinary contexts. She recently published “Giving Up the Good for the Better: Dorothy Day’s Ethic of Direct Action” in A Research Agenda for Organizational Ethics (2023). Having been active in a number of international, national, and regional sociology and...
Barbara Denison
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Shippensburg University, USA)
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 express my gratitude to Durham University for offering me the Residential Research Library fellowship. My experience at Durham was very enriching. Along with the great academic exposure, I got the chance to explore the rich cultural heritage of a beautiful Romanesque city. It is substantially important to mention that the visiting fellows are given access to all the resources. From navigating through the rich archives and rare collections to exploring the latest research in the Bill Bryson library, everything was hassle-free. The functionaries at all the places are very welcoming. Overall, my stay at Durham has been very fruitful...
Veenat Arora
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Panjab University, India)
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)
The Durham Collections Fellowship offered me the opportunity to spend three weeks working on the most important archive on Sudan outside Sudan itself while enjoying a few lovely days in the county, which is a marvelous place to visit. Without this stay, I would never have been able to assemble the material that I now have, which will form the basis for a series of microhistories of the Greek diaspora in Sudan—hopefully a small book to be published in the coming years.
Alexandros Tsakos
Lendrum Visiting Fellowship (University of Bergen, Norway)
I would like to express my profound gratitude to the Barkers fellowship, to all the friendly and helpful librarians at the Palace Green, Bill Bryson and Ushaw libraries, to Professors James Kelly and Bennett Zon and to Barbara Jackson for the wonderful and inspiring research stay in Durham. Reading the 19th century letters and rare books has enabled me to gain a clearer picture of the intricacies of the history, culture and politics in Central Asia. The talks my fellow researchers gave at IAS and subsequent discussions were very inspiring for my work. It was a great opportunity to network...
Maria Rybakova
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
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 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)