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).

2012	Y	Dr Mikael Males	PhD, Old Norse, University of Oslo	Adaptations and Applications of Grammatical Studies in Iceland, c. 1150-1350
2011-12	Y	Dr Lisa Benz St John	PhD, University of York, UK	Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown of Fourteenth-Century England
2010-11	Y	Dr Maija Birenbaum	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fordham University	Virtuous Vengeance: Anti-Judaism and Christian Piety in the Middle Ages
2010	F	Dr Nicola McDonald	Senior Lecturer, University of York (UK) See article on Dr. McDonald's fall 2010 lecture from Inside Fordham	Fictions of Audacity: Popular Romance and the Medieval English Imagination
2011	S	Dr Rolf Stavnem	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Aarhus	Óláfr Tryggvason in Medieval Skaldic Poetry
2009-2010	Y	Dr. Michael Staunton	Lecturer in History, University College, Dublin	Politics and Sanctity in the History and Hagiography of Twelfth-Century England
Spring 2009	S	Dr. Enrica Guerra	PhD Medieval History, University of Ferrara See article on Dr. Guerra's Spring 2009 lecture from Inside Fordham	Ippolito I of Este: A Cardinal in the European Courts
2008-2009	Y	Dr. Roxani E. Margariti	Associate Prof. of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University	Righteous Friends of Friends: A New History of Premodern Indian Ocean Networks and Maritime States
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

Visiting Fellows Program

Scholars who intend to be resident in New York City for over six weeks may seek an informal, non-stipendary affiliation with the Center for Medieval Studies that allows them access to the Fordham University Library and campus facilities in order to consult with particular faculty and attend Center events. This status does not involve helping foreign scholars to get a U.S. visa.

To apply to be a Visiting Fellow, candidates should submit the following to the Director, Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405B, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458 (fax 718-817-3987), medievals@fordham.edu, at least two months before their planned arrival:

• 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 Visiting Fellow.
• A current curriculum vitae.
• Names, addresses, and email addresses of three referees