The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies and the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance have collaborated since 2005 on two series of programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

To see detailed calendar entries for the individual programs in both series, please visit our Past Warwick-Newberry Collaborative Programs page.

Year-by-Year Overview

2005-2009: The Spaces of the Past: Renaissance and Early Modern Cultures in Transatlantic Contexts

Each year in this first, four-year series of programs had its own sub-theme, with a series of workshops during the academic year, a two-week summer workshop alternating in location between the University of Warwick and the Newberry Library, and annual visiting research fellowships.

Year 1, 2005-2006: Space, Culture and Power: Peopling the Built Environment in Renaissance England, c. 1450-1750

Visiting Research Fellows, to the University of Warwick

• Meredith Donaldson, English, University of Michigan
• Marjorie Rubright, English, McGill University

Year 2, 2006-2007: European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America, c. 1520-1800

Visiting Research Fellows, to the Newberry Library

• Amber Brian, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa
• Helen Cowie, History, University of Warwick

Year 3, 2007-2008: Belief and Unbelief in the Early Modern World

Visiting Research Fellows, to the University of Warwick

• Paul Meyer, German, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Dwight TenHuisen, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Calvin College

Year 4, 2008-2009: Spaces, Belief, and Communities in the Early Modern Period

Visiting Research Fellows, to the University of Warwick

• Bethany Packard, English, Vanderbilt University
• Bradley Pardue, History, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Visiting Research Fellow, to the Newberry Library

• Susan Guinn-Chapmann, History, University of Colorado-Boulder

2009-2012: Renaissance and Early Modern Communities

This second, three-year series of programs followed the same pattern, with two one-day workshops and a two-week summer workshop each year, plus visiting research fellows.

Year 1, 2009-2010: Family Values: Locating the Family in the Early Modern Italian Workshop

Visiting Research Fellows, to Warwick-in-Venice

• Megan Moran, History, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
• Emily Price, History, University of Michigan

Year 2, 2010-2011: Connections, Convergences, and Disjuncture: The Joint Histories of England/Britain and English/British America, 1650-1750

Visiting Research Fellows, to the Newberry Library

• Elizabeth Bouldin, History, Emory University
• Stephanie Koscak, History, Indiana University

Year 3, 2011-2012: Reading Publics in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Europe

Two Visiting Research Fellows, to the University of Warwick will be selected after the 2012 summer workshop is complete.

Visiting Research Fellows, to the University of Warwick

See the Call for Applications for visiting fellowships during the 2012-13 academic year. See also the University of Warwick’s web page about the fellowships.