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Anne Marie Van Hook Memorial Travel Fellowship

Black and white photo of a person looking at a giant bookThe Anne Marie Van Hook Memorial Travel Fellowship provides one graduate student per year with an award of $5,000 to fund archival, library, or archaeological research abroad or, in exceptional cases, within North America. The recipient will be an ABD graduate student working in a Marco field.

  • Current and Past Recipients

    2018Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra (History), “If Life Were Verse: Rhetoric and Remembrance of the First Crusaders”
    2017Brittany Poe (History), “Beyond Paris: Alan of Lille and the Reception of Scholasticism in Iberia and Occitania”
    2016Bradley Phillis (History), “Crusade, Reform, and the Counts of Flanders, 1071-1204”
    2015Jeremy Pearson (History), “William of Tripoli and his Middle-Eastern Context”
    2014Katie Hodges-Kluck (History), “The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216”
    2013Scott Bevill (English), “The Lost Books of Antiquity: Antiquarianism and Identity in Early Modern England”
    2012Geoff Martin (History), “Mozarab Readers of the Bible, 10th-12th Centuries”
    2011Leah Giamalva (History), “Christian Responses to the Historico-Theological Problem of Islam’s Ascendancy and Christendom’s Dejection, 1291-1460″
    2010Gina Cash (History), Scottish history, women in the law courts of 16th-century Scotland.
    2009Miguel Gomez (History), “The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Culture and Practice of Crusading in Medieval Iberia”

Information for Applicants for the 2019 Fellowship

A curriculum vitae, research plan, budget, and two letters of support, one from the dissertation supervisor, should be submitted electronically to Marco’s Program Coordinator (marco@utk.edu) by February 15, 2019. The research plan should explain how the proposed travel enhances the applicant’s research project, and the budget should indicate the rough percentage of costs associated with different aspects of the research plan. Review of applications will be undertaken by the Institute’s standing Awards Committee and the results will be announced in March 2019.