
IHR announces new Fellows & Prizes for 2021/22
The IHR is delighted to able to announce the appointment of this academic year’s Fellows, Prizes and Awards.
This includes the appointment of 18 new fellows, 12 Prize winners and of course the 22 recipients of the Scouloudi Research and Publication Awards.
"The research being undertaken is both fascinating and incredibly important and as Acting Director I would like to offer my congratulations to each and every recipient and thanks too to the generous supporters of these awards" - Philip Murphy.
IHR Fellows awarded for 2021/22
IHR Doctoral Fellows
Two categories of IHR doctoral fellowship are available each year:
- The Royal Historical Society funds up to two fellowships per year, the Centenary Fellowship and the Marshall Fellowship, the latter thanks to the generosity of Professor P. J. Marshall, former President of the RHS. Both are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation
- The Scouloudi Foundation offers the equivalent of up to four half-year fellowships, which are all open to UK citizens or to candidates with a degree from a British university
Dan Armstrong (University of St Andrews)
Anglo-Papal Relations, c.1066-c.1135
RHS Centenary Fellow
Jane MacRae Campbell (University of York)
Imagining Empire: An ancient and feudal New World, 1617-1720
Scouloudi Fellow
Humaira Chowdhury (University of Cambridge)
Hanging By A Thread: A social and economic history of Muslim tailors (Darzis) in Calcutta, 1947-1967
RHS Marshall Fellow
Sonali Dhanpal (Newcastle University)
Contested Bangalore: Caste, colonial and princely politics
RHS Marshall Fellow
Jack Ford (University College London)
Perception and Affectivity in Twelfth-Century Cistercian and Victorine De anima Texts
Thornley Fellow
Gillian Lamb (University of Oxford)
‘Saving the children’ and ‘creating new citizens’? The impact of nineteenth-century welfare on working-class children’s lives in Britain and the Anglo-World.
Scouloudi Fellow
Jonathan Powell (King's College London)
Scarce Expressible in English: Theatre and the Common Law, c. 1597-1626
Thornley Fellow
Tania Shew (University of Manchester)
‘Fraternising with the enemy’: analysing sex strikes and birth strikes as tactics in the women’s suffrage movements of Britain and America, 1890-1920
Scouloudi Fellow
Petros Spanou (University of Oxford)
The Crimean Moment and Crucible: Just War, Principles of Peace, and Debates in Victorian Wartime Thought and Culture, 1854-1856
RHS Centenary Fellow
Economic History Society Fellows
The Economic History Society, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, offers up to four one-year postdoctoral fellowships in economic and / or social history. EHS fellowships are tenable at the Institute.
Stephanie Brown
Identity and the Prosecution Of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-1385
Laura Channing
Colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s-1937
Purba Hossain
Situating the ‘Coolie Question’: Indentured Labour and Post-Slavery Debates in Mid-Nineteenth Century Calcutta
Alka Raman
Learning from the muse: Indian cotton textiles and British industrialisation
Jewish History Fellow
With thanks to the generous benefactions from the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, and from the Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe, the IHR is appoints one post-doctoral fellow in Jewish History in any part of the world at any period.
Željka Oparnica
Defying the New International Order: The Jewish politics in the Adriatic 1918–1943
Past & Present Fellows
Past & Present Fellowships are offered by the Past & Present Society and the Institute of Historical Research, who have a broad interest in processes of social, economic, political and cultural change, as manifested in their particular field of study.
Tamara Fernando
Molluscs and Men: A Labour and Environmental History of Natural Pearling in the Indian Ocean 1850-1925
Felice Physioc
Domestic Production and Agricultural Technology in an Indigenous Pueblo North of Potosí, 1540-1700
Alexis Rider
Disposable Deep Time: Polar Plastics and the Postwar Environment
Pearsall Fellow
The Pearsall Fellowship is a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in naval and maritime history.
Ignacio García de Paso
‘Waves of revolution’: The 1848 Revolutions in Maritime Perspective
Prizes and bursaries
Sir John Neale Prize in Tudor History
Eloise Davies
Reformed but Not Converted: Paolo Sarpi, the English mission in Venice and conceptions of religious change
Curriers’ London History Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
David Mason
London Chronicles and the Civic Sense of the Past, circa 1430-1516
Richard III Society and Yorkist History Trust Bursary
The Richard III Society Bursary is awarded for a dissertation or thesis on a topic within the 15th and/ or early 16th century that is of relevance to the research interests of the Richard III Society.
Richard Asquith
Piety and Trust: testators and executors in pre-Reformation London
The Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History
The Sir Julian Corbett Prize is awarded annually by the Academic Trust Funds Committee, on the recommendation of the Institute of Historical Research, to reward original research in the field of modern naval history.
Sara Caputo
Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
Louis Halewood
Peace throughout the Oceans and Seas of the World’: British maritime strategic thought and world order, 1892-1919
Pollard Prize
The Pollard Prize is awarded annually for the best paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. The prize is supported by Oxford University Press.
Winner:
Dr Merve Fejzula (University of Missouri)
Toward a History of Intellectual Labor: gender, negritude, and the Black public sphere, given at the
IHR Political Ideas Seminar
Runner-up:
Lucy Clarke (University of Oxford)
“I say I must for I am the King’s shrieve”: magistrates invoking the monarch’s name in 1 Henry VI (1592) and The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon (1598)
IHR Tudor & Stuart History Seminar
Olivette Otele Prize
The Olivette Otele Prize will be awarded annually for the best paper submitted to the History Lab Postgraduate Research Seminar by a Black PhD research student based in the UK.
Winner:
Sue Lemos (University of Warwick)
Queering Black Politics:The Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (Project) in London, 1980s-1990s.
Sue’s paper on Queering Black Politics centres the agency and voices of queer Black people, creating important new sources through Oral History interviews.
Runner-ups:
Samuel Nwokoro (University of Edinburgh)
Sam’s paper explores Religious Minorities in Early Islamic Syria, using contextual inquiry to interrogate the veneer of generalized modes of identification, to better understand historical interreligious encounters.
Yasmin Dualeh (University of Cambridge)
Yasmin’s paper makes important interventions in our understanding of contemporary US foreign policy and liberalism through an exploration of interwar Arab American Print Culture and the creation of the ‘Syrian World’.
Femi Owolade (KCL)
Femi makes a case for the adoption of legal methodologies in the study of the colonial history of Africa, following British abolition of the legal status of slavery in Northern Nigeria.
Sebastian James Rose (University of Greenwich)
Sebastian applies a critical lens to histories of the construction and maintenance of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, exposing the under-explored significance of racialised labour.
Scouloudi Research Awards
The purpose of a Scouloudi research award is to pay for research, and other expenses, to be incurred in the completion of advanced historical work, which the applicant intends subsequently to publish.
Piers Baker-Bates
Between Rome and Spain: Roman Material Culture in a Spanish Imperial World 1516-1621
Pinar Ceylan
Inequality in Inequality: Rural Income Distribution and Social Stratification in Ottoman Anatolia, the Balkans and the Levant, late-15th to late-16th centuries
Aidan Collins
Bankruptcy, Failure, and the Court of Chancery, 1674-1750
Jonathan Colman
The Diplomatic Career of Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts, 1930-1968
James Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard
English and Welsh Priests Vol 4 (1915-2000)
Tim Fulford
The Collected Letters of Thomas Beddoes
Jeremy Haslam
My page on the site academia.edu - at https://independent.academia.edu/HaslamJeremy and Online with the Archaeological Data Service.
Cailah Jackson
Illuminated and illustrated manuscripts of western Persia, c. 1350–c. 1410
Mark Lawrence
Cristeros and Carlists: a Comparative Study of Mexican and Spanish Traditionalism
Thomas Leahy
Memory beyond borders: dealing with Troubles legacy in the Republic of Ireland since 1969
Stephen Rigby
Historians on the Medieval Robin Hood
Gabrielle Storey
Co-Rulership and Competition: Queens and Power in Angevin England and France, 1120-1246
Scouloudi Publication Awards
The purpose of a Scouloudi publication award is to subsidise a portion of the cost of publishing a scholarly book or article, or an issue of a learned journal in the field of history, either in hard copy or through electronic publication.
Jason Bate
The Camera as Caregiver: Photography, Facial Injuries, and Domestic Recovery After the Great War
Matthew Bazley
An Edition of Accounts of the Manor of Bickley, Cheshire, 1395 – 1465
Carol Beardmore
Navigating the Nineteenth Century Institution: Workhouse and Asylum
Elizabeth Benjamin
'Existential Comics': bande dessinée and the Art of Ethics
Jacob Bloomfield
Drag. A British History
Lucinda Dean
Death and the Royal Succession in Scotland, c. 1214 – c. 1543: Ritual, Ceremony and Power
Jean Smith
Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom, 1939-1994
Emily Ward
Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c.1050-1262
Theo Williams
Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation
Philip Williamson
National Prayers: Special Worship since the Reformation; volume 3: Worship for National and Royal Occasions in the United Kingdom 1871–2016