John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship Recipients

2024-26

Basil Price is the first John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow. His appointment is for two academic years, July 2024 through June 2026. Price received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of York, where he was both a Wolfson Scholar (2020-2023) and a Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024). His doctoral dissertation was entitled “The Shadow Archive: Politics, Place, and Failure in the Postclassical Sagas.” Under the supervision of CMRS-CEGS Director Zrinka Stahuljak, Dr. Price will work on his current monograph project, provisionally entitled The Postcolonial Sagas: The Politics of Failure in Later Medieval Iceland (1264-1500). His project responds to an omission in histories of colonialism after Iceland became a dependency of the Kingdom of Norway in 1262-1264. According to Dr. Price, “Only recently have scholars examined how Old Norse-Icelandic literature was impacted by the new position of Iceland within the Kingdom of Norway, which, at its height, extended from Norway to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, and Shetland.” Read the full interview with Dr. Price.