
Announcement of Scaliger Institute research fellowship winners
With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers, Elsevier and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fellows and guests every year to consult and examine material in the Special Collections at the Leiden University Libraries. The Scaliger Institute received a large number of applications this year, submitted by domestic and international scholars. From these applications the following scholars have been awarded a fellowship:
Brill Fellowship
Tom Parat (Université de Franche-Comté, France)
The Conflict between William of Orange and Granvelle in Franche-Comte
Lyke de Vries (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Reception and Rejection: The Early Modern Dutch Response to Rosicrucianism
Liza Blake (University of Toronto, Canada)
Margaret Cavendish Sammelbände and Choose your own Poems and Fancies
Gloria Moorman (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
The Dutch Republic through Tuscan Eyes: Medici Interest in Dutch Publishing, Trade and Politics
William Mitchell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
The Low Church Lobby: English Argument for Protestant Union in the Shadow of the Revolution of the Edict of Nantes, 1680-1715
Vitaliy Bezrogov (Institut Strategii Razvitiya Obrazovaniya Rossijskoj Akademii Obrazovaniya, Russia)
Europe on the way beyond its Limits: early German-Russian translation of the Orbis sensualium pictus
Marissa Griffioen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bodel Nijenhuis’ maps in context
Van de Sande fellowship
Anastasia Stefanaki (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands)
Exploring the Botanical Activity of Leonhard Rauwolf in Southern France and Northern Italy in the period 1560-1562
Iolanda Ventura (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)
The Impact of the Mesue’s writings in 16th-17th c. recipes collections
Juynboll Fellowship
Gabriel Lavin (University of California, United States)
Gambus music and Islamic vocal performance practices in the Indian Ocean World
Isaac Alfred Ailion Fellowship
Chris Joby (Wydzialu Anglistik UAM, Poznan, Poland)
The Dutch Language in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan
Scaliger Fellowships
Isabelle Cogitore (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
The Commentaries written by Lipsius to the Annals of Tacitus
Shweta Raghu (Yale University, United States)
Views from the Deck of a Ship: The Coastal Arts of Colonial Coromandel