Other Significant Fellowships
Past Fellows
Durham is a lovely town, and the University is a stimulating place for scholars. I believe that the Fellowship will offer wonderful experiences, both academically and socially, to anyone interested in research and life at an English university.
Shunsuke Katsuta
Sasakawa Visiting Fellowship (University of Tokyo, Japan)
At Durham, Vanessa consulted Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century oeuvres from the Ushaw and Palace Green libraries on mystical theology and instructions for religious rituals to explore the understanding and rationalization of occult practices at a time of global Counter–reformation. Two of the most influential works in her search were Martín Antoine Del Rio, Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, quibus continentur accurata curiosarum artium, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis (Moguntiae: Sumptibus Petri Henningii, 1624); and Giovanni Bonna's Rerum liturgicarum libri duo (Augustae Taurinorum: Ex Typographia Regia, 1747). Some of the findings of this research were presented at the ‘Conferencia...
Vanessa Portugal
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University College London, England)
My experience in Durham as the holder of a Barker Visiting Fellowship was stunning. As an historian of the long (perhaps too long?) 18th century, spending a month exploring the vast personal archives of the 2nd and 3rd Earl Grey and of the 1st Earl of Durham was a splendid opportunity. I am currently working on the Duke of Wellington as interim Prime Minister after the dismissal of Melbourne’s government in 1834: my research will benefit largely from my work on the Grey and Lambton papers. The staff at the Special Collections was wonderful: always ready to go the extra...
Ugo Bruschi
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Bologna, Italy)
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)
While a Visiting Fellow at the DRRL I worked on two early modern topics relating to central and eastern Europe. I was able to study the English reception of the works of an Augsburg-born Jesuit, the different editions of the translation being available at Ushaw. I was also able to consult the collections in Durham Cathedral Library to explore the life of a chaplain to King Charles I, who was active in Transylvania in the mid-seventeenth century. The collection includes Hungarian-language original documents, testifying to the global reach of the collections in Durham. The whole research experience was hugely enjoyable,...
Dr Toth Zsombor
DRRL Visiting Fellowship (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
First of all,i would like to thank Durham University for the hospitality and warm welcoming. I was so lucky and delighted to be one of the Durham Residencial Research Library Fellows, Visiting Barker Fellowship.lam working on a research entitled:The Role of Slatin Pasha in the Modern History of the Sudan 1879_1914. Slatin Pasha was an Austrian soldier who served under the British Crown during the Colonial Era in the Sudan. The Sudan Archive, part of Durham University Library and Collections, represents an essential resource for my topic. The primary Archival documents related to Slatin Pasha are only available at Durham...
Mohammed Emam
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Open University of Sudan , Sudan)
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 applied for a Holland Visiting Fellowship, one of the Durham Collections Fellowships, to deepen my research on the communities of Catholic exiles established in Portugal during the Protestant Reformation. The Ushaw Library, managed by Durham University, holds a significant portion of the bibliographical and archival materials produced by the English College in Lisbon — a building that, though no longer in use, still stands in the city.
Maria Luisa Jacquinet
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal)
A productive month of research in historic Durham in a collegial environment with scholars whose work informs your own – it doesn’t get better than that!
Carmen Mangion
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of London, England)
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)