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Schallek Fellowship and Awards

The Medieval Academy, in collaboration with the Richard III Society-American Branch, offers a full-year fellowship and five graduate student awards in memory of William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek. The fellowship and awards are supported by a generous gift to the Richard III Society from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek.

The Schallek Fellowship provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). The annual application deadline is 15 October.

The Schallek awards support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). The $2,000 awards help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials. The cost of books or equipment (e.g., computers) is not included. The annual application deadline is 15 February.

Applicants to both Schallek programs must be members of the Medieval Academy. Graduate students who are members of the Medieval Academy and who seek support to research and write Ph.D. dissertations on topics related to medieval Britain before 1350 or on any other medieval topic should apply to the Medieval Academy Dissertation Grant program.

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Schallek Fellowship and Awards Lists

Schallek Fellowships

• 2005 Janelle A. Werner, University of North Carolina
  “’As long as their sin is privy’: Clerics and Concubines in Late Medieval England”


• 2006 Katharine K. Olson, Harvard University
  “’Fire from Heaven': Understanding Popular Religion and Social Transformation in Wales ca. 1400-1600 in Comparative British Context"


• 2007 James Bennett, The Ohio State University
  “St. Albans, Bury St. Edmunds, and the Evolution of the Later Medieval English Polity”


• 2008 Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina
  “Rendering the Word: Vernacular Accounts of the Parables in Late Medieval England”

Schallek Awards: 2004 Awardees

• Rebecca A. Davis, University of Notre Dame
  “Piers Plowman and the Book of Nature”


• Mary Hayes, University of Iowa
  “Still small voice: Silence in Medieval English Devotion and Literature”


• Paul J. Patterson, University of Notre Dame
  “A Mirror to Devout People: A Critical Edition with Commentary”


• Frederick J. Poling, Catholic University of America
  “Villagers in Court: The Hierarchies of Rural Life in Later Medieval England”


• Kathryn Kelsey Staples, University of Minnesota
  “Daughters of London: Inheritance Practice in Late Medieval London”

Schallek Awards: 2005 Awardees

• Andreea D. Boboc, University of Michigan
  “English Trial Literature of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”


• Joshua R. Eyler, University of Connecticut
  “Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in Medieval English Theology and Literature”


• Mary Flannery, University of Cambridge
  “The Relationship between John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, Lydgate’s Source, and the Fall’s Descendants”


• Alla Gaydukova, Rutgers University
  “Women and Property in Norfolk in the Reign of Edward III”


• Jill C. Stevenson, City University of New York Graduate Center
  “Performance and Visual Piety in Medieval York”

Schallek Awards: 2006 Awardees

• Jessica Barr, Brown University
  “Revelation and Knowledge in Visionary and Dream Vision Literature of the Later Middle Ages”


• James T. Bennett, Ohio State University
  “Urban Politics and Political Ideology on the Abbatial Estates of Bury St. Edmunds and St. Albans in the Later Middle Ages”


• Elizabeth Harper, University of North Carolina
  “Gift-Giving, Economics, and Monetary Language in Late Medieval English Vernacular Writings”


• Michael Johnston, Ohio State University
  “The Social Practice of Middle English Romance: Three Late Medieval Collectors”


• Elizabeth A. Williamsen, Indiana University
  “Christian Representations of Islam and the Quest for Collective Identity in the Middle English Charlemagne Romances”

Schallek Awards: 2007 Awardees

• Cynthia T. Camp, Cornell University
  “Embodying the Anglo-Saxons: Incorrupt Saints and Late Medieval Constructions of National Communities”


• Alison T. Walker, University of California-Los Angeles
  “Henry V and Religious Orthodoxy”


• Lora Walsh, Northwestern Univ.
  “Conflict and Community in the Personified Ecclesia: The Gender of the English Church 1350-1600

Schallek Awards: 2008 Awardees

• Sonja Drimmer, Columbia University
  “The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower’s Confessio Amantis”


• Donna E. Hobbs, University of Texas at Austin
  “Telling Tales out of School: Schoolboooks, Audiences, and the Production of Venacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages”


• Mollie M. Madden, University of Minnesota
  “The Black Price at War: Late Medieval Military Logistics”


• Rosemary O’Neill, University of Pennsylvania
  “Accounting for Salvation in Middle English Literature”


• Matthew Sergi, University of California-Berkeley
  “Recreation and Festival in Chester’s Pageants, 1400-1577”