The Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History was established in 2004 by John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens in memory of their daughter Birgit. It is endowed through the generosity of her family.

The Baldwin Fellowship provides a grant of $20,000 to support a graduate student in a North American university who is researching and writing a significant dissertation for the Ph.D. on any subject in French medieval history that can be realized only by sustained research in the archives and libraries of France.

The fellowship helps defray research and living expenses for the equivalent of an academic year of study. It may be renewed for a second year upon demonstration of satisfactory progress. Because of the renewable nature of the fellowship, applications are solicited on a biannual basis.

The fellowship recipient must devote full time to the dissertation project and may not hold any job or teaching position or work on another project during the term of the fellowship. Applicants must be members of the Medieval Academy.

Baldwin Fellowship Instructions
Baldwin Fellowship Application

 

Birgit Baldwin Fellowship Committee

Constance Bouchard (2014), University of Akron, Chair

Adam Davis (2016), Denison University

Richard Barton (2018), University of North Carolina, Greensboro

The date in parentheses is the final year of the term of each committee member.

 

Birgit Baldwin Fellowship Winners

• 2012 Nathanael Melson, Fordham University
  "Franciscan Identity and Saintly Economy in Late Medieval Marseille, 1248-1483"
  
  
• 2011 Regan Eby, Boston College
  "Monasteries and Communities in Eleventh-Century Brittany"
  
  
• 2010 Thomas A. Greene, University of Loyola at Chicago
  "Emotions and Religious Culture in Ninth-Century Auxerre"
  
  
• 2008-2009 Stephen J. Molvarec, Notre Dame University
  "Carthusian Self-Conception and the World"
  
  
• 2007 Emily K. Wilson, Harvard University
  "The Execution of Papal Justice in Northern France, 1145-1198"
  
  
• 2006 Susannah Crowder, CUNY Graduate Center
  "Performance Culture in Medieval Metz, 840-1520"
  
  
• 2005 Patricia Turning, University of California, Davis
  "The Making of French Toulouse: State Building, Social Relationships and Civic Identity in Medieval Languedoc, c. 1250-1350"