The Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester is pleased to invite applications for the Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fellowship in Medieval Studies. The fellowship is open to women and gender minorities with dissertation projects in any field of medieval studies. Its intent is to provide fellows with a year of research supported by the resources of the Robbins Library. Past fellows have worked on animal studies, manuscript studies and reading practices, translation and textual transmission, medieval clothing, Jews in medieval England, the Arthurian legend, courtesy books and manners, female advice figures, and more. They have led reading groups, curated exhibits, and organized movie screenings, lectures and symposia, and other programming.

The recipient must be in residence in Rochester and make use of the Robbins Library for the academic year (up to twelve months). They must provide for their own living and travel expenses from the award, and provide their own health insurance. They are expected to engage in the academic life of the University, and to give a presentation on their research near the end of their residency.

The Fellow must be an advanced graduate student (ABD) in good standing, who is engaged full-time in researching and writing the dissertation. Ideally, they should have no more than one full year of dissertation work remaining at the start of the fellowship year.