UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

The CMRS offers a number fellowships and grants to UCLA graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and CMRS faculty providing financial support for their academic and/ or research activities.

The Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowships, established in honor of the Center's former director, provides $2,500 to assist UCLA graduate students with the cost of travel related to research in any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Italian studies. The number of fellowships awarded in each calendar year depend on the quality and quantity of research proposals submitted and total funds available for the program.

The George T. and Margaret W. Romani Fellowships help support graduate students at UCLA. Each year, one or two CMRS Romani Fellowships of $20,000 will be awarded to students nominated by their academic departments. Nominees must express a commitment to pursuing studies in some aspect of the Middle Ages or Renaissance, and must be studying under the mentorship of a faculty member who is an active member of CMRS. Funding for student fees, tuition, and other expenses must be provided by the recipient’s academic department or other sources.

CMRS offers small Interdisciplinary Research Grants to teams of UCLA faculty members and/or graduate students representing at least two different academic disciplines for interdisciplinary projects in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. These grants encourage faculty and students from different departments and interdepartmental programs to work together on interdisciplinary projects. Grants awarded to each team are typically $2,000 or less; the total number of grants awarded in each calendar year depends on the quality and quantity of proposals submitted and the funds available.

The Lynn and Maude White Fellowship is awarded every other year to an outstanding UCLA graduate student specializing in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Established in 1988 and named for its donors, the Center's founding director Professor Lynn White and his wife, the fellowship provides a $15,000 stipend to support dissertation research and travel.

Research Assistantships awarded annually by the Center on a competitive basis provide UCLA graduate students with much needed financial support, as well as an opportunity to work closely with CMRS faculty members. Such mentoring broadens the student's appreciation of the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary nature of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Research Assistantships also promote faculty research. Typically, a student researcher works with a number of different professors, acquiring and reinforcing a wide range of skills.

Summer Fellows are available to scholars who hold a PhD (or the foreign equivalent). Scholars may apply for an affiliation with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as CMRS Summer Fellows in order to pursue research at UCLA in any aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

French 15th century Book of Hours from Rouse Manuscript Collection.

Simon Vostre (fl. 1486-1518) printed and published in Paris at the sign of St. John the Evangelist on the rue Neuve Notre Dame, the “new street” leading to the great cathedral cut through in 1164 by Maurice de Sully, bishop of Paris, who began the cathedral's construction. The rue Neuve served as the center of the commercial book trade from its beginnings through the appearance of print. Simon's wife Geneviève le Pelletier came from a family which is recorded in the Paris book trade since 1368, and Vostre's shop on the rue Neuve had belonged to her book-binder father Jean le Pelletier. This leaf bearing Vostre's printer's device comes from a Book of Hours printed on parchment and hand-colored for Vostre in 1496 by Philippe Pigouchet on the rue de la Harpe. It reflects the continuity of Parisian book production from script to print, and the close family and neighborhood networks which formed the dynamics of the trade.
R.H. & M.A. Rouse Pr.L.9