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)