We are delighted to learn that Dr Katie Stevenson - who is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH - has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal.  The medal is an Early Career Prize and is awarded to Katie "for her outstanding scholarly work on the cultural and political history of late medieval Scotland which has established her as a leading international expert in the field and for her commitment to knowledge exchange".  She is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the Univer

The Traverse Theatre and IASH  are pleased to announce that this year’s IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow is the professional playwright and director, Clare Duffy.

As part of the Fellowship, Clare will be commissioned to write a new play for the Traverse Theatre on the topic of ‘Conflict and Reconciliation’.

The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Clarisse Godard Desmarest has been awarded the 2014 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th Century Scottish Studies.  Dr Godard Desmarest is a lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Amiens and will be working at IASH on her project on "Women and Architecture in 18th century Scotland".  She will be at the Institute from August to November 2014.

Dr Endre Szécsényi (IASH Fellow in 2001 and 2008) has been awarded a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship in Aberdeen.  He and his family will be moving to Scotland in August and Endre will be pursuing his research at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Historian Dr Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) is the presenter of a three-part series on "The Stuarts" which is being shown on BBC2 Scotland  on 30 January, 6 February and 13 February, and shortly afterwards on BBC2 elsewhere in the UK.   In it Clare argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain’s defining royal family. In the century to come, not only the political shape of modern Britain would emerge, but the embryonic ideas of a new British identity.

Professor Louise Chappell Reflects on her SPS-IASH Fellowship.
(Reproduced with kind permission from Bricolage December 2013 Issue 3)

Belated congratulations to Marianne Boruch on winning the Claremont Graduate University 2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.   She was awarded the prize of $100,000 for her collection The Book of Hours, published by Copper Canyon Press.

Congratulations to Dr Arima Mishra (CWIT Fellow at IASH, 2009)  on the publication of a book she has co-edited with Suhita Chopra Chatterjee on 'Multiple Voices and Stories: Narratives of Health and Illness'.  The book is published by Orient BlackSwan and you can read more about it at http://orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=9&isbn=978-81-250-5379-8#

Applications are invited for the next round of IASH Visiting Research Fellowships (for Fellowships in the period June 2014 - September 2016) and for the David Hume Fellowship 2014-15.  The deadline for applications for both schemes is 28 February 2014.  Full details, including how to apply, can be found in the Fellowships section of the IASH website.

The Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies is being  offered for the first time in 2014.  The Fellowship, to be held at IASH, is for two-six months and the deadline for applications is 15 January 2014.  Full details of the Fellowship and the application process can be found here.