Schallek Fellowship Recipients 2005-2008

Since 2005, the Richard III Society, American Branch has funded an annual $30,000 fellowship award. This program is endowed by generous gifts from the late William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek during their lifetimes and by a bequest from Maryloo Schallek. The program is administered on behalf of the American Branch by The Medieval Academy of America.

Judging is in process for the 2009 award, for which applications were due October 15, 2008.

Recipients since the project's inception were:

• 2005: Janelle A. Werner, University of North Carolina. "'As long as their sin is privy': Clerics and Concubines in Late Medieval England."
• 2006: Katharine K. Olson, Havard University. "'Fire from Heaven': Understanding Popular Religion and Social Transformation in Wales c. 1400-1600 in Comparative British Context"
• 2007: Janes Bennett, Ohio State University. "St. Albans, Bury St. Edmunds, and the Evolution of the Later Medieval English Polity"
• 2008: Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina. "Rendering the Word: Vernacular Accounts of the Parables in late Medieval England"

Information on the program, including application guidelines, can be found at the Medieval Academy of America website.