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Medieval Fellows Program

In 1996, the Center for Medieval Studies initiated a Medieval Fellows program, which offers post-doctoral scholars the benefits of post-graduate research affiliation with Fordham University during one or two semesters of research in the New York City area. The appointment carries no stipend, but Fellow status includes library privileges and a carrel, a research-oriented email account, use of the gym at faculty rates, participation in all seminars and functions in Medieval Studies, photocopy privileges, and program stationary.

Medieval Fellows are expected to offer one lecture in his or her area of specialization during their term of residence and to abide by the regulations of those University facilities that he or she utilizes.Fellows are invited to participate fully in the Center's activities, including workshops, graduate prize competitions, and the annual Medieval Studies conference. In the last few years, one or more of the Fellows have served as judges for the graduate student essay prizes.

Candidates wishing to apply for Fellow status submit the following to the Director, Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405B, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 (fax 718-817-3987) by June 15 of the academic year they wish their tenure to begin:

A letter of application and intent to be in residence in or in the immediate vicinity of New York City for the stated duration of the candidate's request for affiliation.
A succinct three- to four-page doubled-spaced description of the project or purpose for which the candidate is applying for status as a Fordham Medieval Fellow.
A current curriculum vitae.
Names, addresses, and email addresses of three referees

Announcements of the year's awards are in August; generally at least one but no more than three awards are made in any one academic year from a pool of applicants that numbers from three to seven each year. The Fellows come from a wide variety of disciplines and stages in their academic careers. Several of the Fellows have been recent PhD recipients from Fordham and other universities, one has been a full professor who wished to spend her sabbatical in New York City, while others have been mid-career scholars or academics from abroad. The Medieval Fellows program has drawn a wide range of post-doctoral scholars to Fordham for terms lasting from four months in the Fall (F) or Spring (S) semester, to the entire year (Y).

Spring 2008
S Dr Catherine Schulze PhD Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Expulsion and Reform at the Abbey of Stain-Jean of Laon, 1128

2006-07 Y Dr Beth Holman PhD Art History, NYU The Display Credenza/Buffet in Late Medieval and Renaissance Interiors

Y Dr Caroline A. Smith PhD History, Cambridge John of Joinville in Old Age: The Values and Consequences of Longevity

Summer 2006 S Fernando Villaseñor Sebastián* Departamento de Historia del Arte, Instituto de Historia, Madrid Profane Iconography in Castilian Manuscripts in the XV Century

2005-2006 Y Dr. Elizabeth Monroe PhD Art History, University of Southern California 'Insistas Luctamine Diros Hostes Sternere’: Representation of Jews and Judaism in Herrad of Hohenbourg's Hortus Deliciarum

2004-2005 Y Dr. Anne M. Schuchman PhD Italian Studies, New York Univ. 'Within the Walls of Paradise’: Umiliana de’ Cerchi and the Changing Rhetoric of Sanctity

2003-2004 Y Dr. Christopher Bellitto Academic Editor, Paulist Press; now Assoc. Prof., Kean Univ. Fixing France: Restoring Peace, Justice and Order during the French Civil War

2002-2003 S Dr. Roy Rosenstein Prof., Dept. of Comparative Literature, The American University of Paris Jaufre Rudel, Near and Far

S Dr. Ellen Martin PhD, City Univ. of New York Literature and Psyche: The Example of Medieval Monastic Lectio

2001-2002 Y Dr. June-Ann Greeley PhD Classics, Fordham; now Asst. Prof. of Religious Studies, Sacred Heart Univ.
A Critical Edition of the Writings of Theodulf of Orleans

2000-2001 Y Dr. Gila Aloni PhD English literature, Univ. of Paris IV, Sorbonne; now Visiting Asst. Prof. of English, Florida International Univ. Hagiography and Female Mysticism: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

1999-2000 Y Dr. Nina Melechen PhD History, Fordham; now Visiting Asst. Prof. of History, Yeshiva College/Stern College for Women The Jews of Medieval Toledo: Their Economic and Social Contacts with Christians from 1150 to 1391

Y Dr. A. E. Wright Asst. Prof., German Literature, Univ. of Illinois edition of Berg des Schauens

1998-1999 F Dr. Vanessa Harding Senior Lecturer in History, Birkbeck College, Univ. of London The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670

S Dr. Attilio Motta Italian Literature, Univ.of Padova I caratteri della translatio narrativa romanza: il caso della Chanson d’Yde et Olive e della Reina d’Oriente di Antonio Pucci

1997-1998 S Dr. Francesca Gambino

Y Dr. Jennifer Goodman Prof. of English, Texas A & M Univ. Arthurian and Chivalric Literature

Y Dr. Theresa Earenfight PhD History, Fordham; now Asst. Prof. of History, Seattle Univ. Late medieval kingship and queenship in the crown of Aragon

1996-1997 F Dr. Marilyn Corrie Lecturer in English, Univ. College, London Multilingual manuscript of miscellanies

Y Dr. Stephen Partridge Asst. Prof. of English, Univ. of British Columbia Edition of the manuscript glosses of The Canterbury Tales

Y Dr. Elizabeth Dachowski History Department, University of Minnesota; now Asst. Prof. of History, Tennessee State Univ. The Career of Abbo of Fleury

Y Dr. Marilyn Oliva Visiting Asst. Prof. of History, Marymount College Completed a volume for the Suffolk Monastic Charter Series

*Received external support for PhD research