We are delighted to congratulate CMRS-CEGS Faculty, Jamie Kreiner, Professor of History and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, on receiving the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.
This year’s fellows from UCLA — Richard L. Hasen, Jamie Kreiner, Heather Maynard, Sean Metzger and Kay Kyurim Rhie — are engaged in transformative scholarship in areas ranging from law and chemistry to Medieval studies, musical composition, and theater and performance arts.
Each will receive a no-strings-attached monetary stipend to independently pursue work and research of their choice.
Read the full story from UCLA Newsroom below:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/5-ucla-faculty-members-awarded-2026-guggenheim-fellowships
Jamie Kreiner
Professor of history, UCLA College
Kreiner, who holds the Robert and Dororthy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, is a historian of the early Middle Ages whose research explores how early medieval culture can point to alternate realities of the human experience while also revealing surprising common ground with the present. Her important published works include the books “The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom” (2014, Cambridge University Press), “Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West” (2020, Yale University Press) and “The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction” (2023, Liveright/Norton). Kreiner’s current research explores the interface between cognitive science and history and the ways that early medieval cognitive tools and ethics can change our understanding of technology and habits of thinking. During the 2026–27 academic year, she will be a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.