Recipients
2020
Roberto Casazza holds a PhD in Humanities (focused on Philosophy and Cosmology of the Classical Tradition). He currently teaches Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. He is co-author of El sistema astronómico de Aristóteles – Una interpretación (Buenos Aires, 2015), a book that is being translated into English. He is currently coordinating, based at the Biblioteca Nacional of Argentina, an international co-work of several institutions towards the identification of incunabula in Latin American Libraries not-yet-registered-in-the-ISTC. His coming research in Montreal will focus on incunabula and sixteenth century astronomical books of the Raymond Klibansky Collection at McGill University Library.
2019
Jessica Stacey holds a PhD in French literature from King’s College London. She is currently a career development fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Her major research interest is in the way that we conceive of time and civilizational change through metaphor and narrative, particularly as these pertain to catastrophes.
You can read Dr. Stacey's grant report here.
Karis Shearer is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) where she directs the AMP Lab. Her research interests include the digital archive, literary audio, Canadian modernism, and women's labour in poetry communities.
You can read Prof. Shearer's grant report here.
2018
Dr. Anna Winterbottom works on the early modern Indian Ocean region and the European colonial presence there with reference to the history of medicine, science, and environment. She is the author of Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World (Palgrave, 2016) and the co-editor of Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave, 2015) and The East India Company and the Natural World (Palgrave, 2014). She currently teaches Indian Ocean World History at the University of Carleton.
You can read Dr. Winterbottom's grant report here.
2017
Dr. Felix Waldmann, this year's recipient of the Raymond Klibansky Research Grant, is a Junior Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge. Dr. Waldmann's trip to Rare Books and Special Collections was to update his 2014 Further letters of David Hume. He also explored other aspects of the McGill David Hume collection.
You can read Dr. Waldmann's grant report here.
