Boyd-Niles Travel Fellowship Recipients

From 2017 to present day

2025-2026

  • Jennifer Bricker (History/German/MARS ‘27): Maulbronn Monastery: A Well-Preserved Look at Medieval Religious Life in Germany
  • Caroline Berkey (SoAn ‘28): Site Visit to Guedelon Castle (Paris Program)
  • Noelle Paek (English ’28): Lived Cities: Literary and Classical Layers in Paris and London (Living London: London Lives)

2024-2025

  • Austin Flamm (Russian/History/MARS ’27): From Mtskheta to Myth: Medieval Imitation in Contemporary Georgia (Russophone Studies in Central Asia)
  • Ella Parke (History/MARS ’27): The Resilient City: Contextualizing the “Martyrs of Otranto” and the Ottoman Conquest of Southern Italy (History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval Italy; OCS Rome)
  • Zoe Roettger (Classics/MARS ’27): Volterra: A 3,000 Year-Old Town (History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval Italy; OCS Rome)
  • Hope Yu (History/MARS ’26): Cross-Temporal Spaces of Spirituality: Exploring 13th-Century Christian Muristenes and Nuragic Sanctuaries in the Novenary of Santa Cristina (History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval Italy; OCS Rome)

2023-2024

  • Tim Abbott (History/MARS ’26): Religious Transitions, Asceticism, and Mosaics in Jordan (Classical Arabic Program – Qasid Institute, Summer 2024. *Coming from OCS: History, Culture, and Commerce: OCS Africa and Arabia, Spring 2024).
  • Lucky Buella Muhoza (Computer Science ’26): Kendwa and Paje Towns in Zanzibar (History, Culture, and Commerce: OCS Africa and Arabia, Spring 2024)
  • Arthur Koenig (English ’25): The Cool Table: Analyzing the Literary History and Influence of the Muiderkring and Muiderslot Castle (Siting Writing, Writing Place; OCS Ireland)
  • Ella Peoples (English ’25): The Sacred vs the Profane in Contested Religious Symbolism (Siting Writing, Writing Place; OCS Ireland)
  • Blake Jones (Computer Science ’25) and Luke Wharton (Computer Science/Economics ’25): The Rise, Formation, and Story of Alcazars in Southern Spain (Sports and Globalization in London and Seville)

2022-2023

  • Douglas Meeker (English ’24): Con-textualized Spaces: Analyzing and Advancing the Literary History of Penshurst Place  (Living London: City, Scene, Anthropocene; OCS London)
  • Lydia Montgomery (English ’24) & Phoebe Ward (English ’24): Exploring the Legend of St. David (Living London: City, Scene, Anthropocene; OCS London)
  • Scott Hudson (History ’24) & Ella Johnson (Art History ’24): Art, Architecture, and Power Projection at the Castello Aragonese d’Ischia (History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval Italy; OCS Rome)
  • Sofia Durdag (History ’25) & Sydney Tirschwell (History ’25): The Many Ages of San Marino: From Medieval to Modernity (History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval Italy; OCS Rome)

2021-2022

  • Dawson Erickson (Religion/French/MARS ’23) Memory in Spatial Context: Vestiges of the Albigensian Crusade (French and Francophone Studies in Paris, Spring 2022)
  • Becca Helmstetter (English/MARS ’23) The Inscription of Memory on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Living London: Literature, Theater, Art, and the City – Spring 2022)

2020-2021

Program suspended during the Covid-19 Pandemic

2019-2020

Program suspended during the Covid-19 Pandemic

2018-2019

  • Abbie Smith (Economics ’20): Exploring Medieval and Renaissance Tuscany (OCS History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 2019)
  • Katy Munger (Computer Science ’21): Journey by Sleeper Train to Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire (OCS Computer Science in Cambridge 2019)
  • Read Wilder (History/Classics/MARS/German ’20): In the Footsteps of Ibn Jubayr: A 21st century Trip through 12th century Sicily (OCS History, Religion, and Urban Change in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 2019)

2017-2018

  • Levi Atkinson (Art History/Studio Art ’19): Exploration of Venetian Gothic and Renaissance Architecture in Venice, Italy (Art History OCS in Europe)
  • August Lindgren-Ruby (English & Music ’20): Vikings, Normans and Englishmen. A Journey in History (English OCS London)
  • Emily Schwartz (Physics ’19): The Cathedral of Strasbourg in Urban History and Art (Art History OCS in Europe)
  • Matt Thill (Statistics ’20): A Taste of Medieval England (Economics/European Studies OCS Cambridge)