The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2010–2011. Information about other visiting scholars who will be joining the Institute in the coming year will be added as it becomes available.

Franklin T. Harkins
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) received his doctorate in theology in 2005 from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Reading and the Work of Restoration: History and Scripture in the Theology of Hugh of St Victor, published by PIMS in 2009. During his tenure of the Mellon Fellowship he will complete a Latin edition of the Filia Magistri, a thirteenth-century abridgment of Peter Lombard's Sentences. He also plans an English translation and critical introduction for the text.

Patrick Healy
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) earned his doctorate in history in 2004 from Trinity College Dublin with a dissertation entitled "The Sources and Themes of the Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest." Most recently he has been Tutor and Fellow in Medieval History, St Hugh's College, and Departmental Lecturer, History Faculty, Oxford University. While a Mellon Fellow at the Institute, he will continue his work in the eleventh century with a study of miracles of reform 1049–1095.

John Marenbon
(Distinguished Visiting Scholar) is a Fellow of Trinity College, and Lecturer there in the History of Philosophy. He has written widely on medieval philosophy, and especially on Boethius, Eriugena, and Abelard, and also on the tradition of Aristotelian logic in the middle ages. He is the author of Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (2007), Le temps, l'éternité et la prescience de Boèce à Thomas d'Aquin (2005), Boethius (2003), and Early Medieval Philosophy, 480–ll50 (2nd rev. ed. 2002). He has edited Abelard's Collationes for Oxford Medieval Texts (2001) and is the general editor of The Cambridge Companion to Boethius (2009). His influential essays on the medieval reception of Aristotle and Plato were collected in Aristotelian Logic, Platonism, and the Context of Early Medieval Philosophy in the West (2000).

Stefan Schick
(Guest) earned his doctorate in the field of the history of Philosophy with a dissertation "Contradictio est regula veri: Die Grundsaetze des Denkens in der formalen, transzendentalen und spekulativen Logik" (Regensburg 2009). He is currently preparing for his Habilitation. To that end he is undertaking a comparative study of philosophical ethics and the ethics revealed by positive religion in the philosophy of Nicolaus of Cusa and Immanuel Kant.

Alain J. Stoclet
(Research Fellow) was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Licence, Agrégation) and received his doctorate from the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. He is currently Maître de Conférences on leave from the Université Lyon 2 - Lumière, where he has been teaching since 1992. He was appointed Research Associate at the Institute and at the Centre for Medieval Studies in 2009. His interest in the interrelations of political, cultural, and religious history of the early middle ages is best typified by "From Baghdad to Beowulf : Eulogising 'Imperial' Capitals East and West in the Mid-Eighth Century," his 2005 article in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. He is also the author of books on the nature of the early Carolingians' eastward expansion (1993) and on aspects of public administration in the Frankish, Anglo-Saxon and Byzantine worlds (1999). He is preparing a full-length study of Pippin 'the Short' (c. 714–768) and is also starting a large international research project on the Letters of Boniface and Lul, which will produce a new edition, new translations, and a full commentary.

Jeffrey Webb
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate) completed his doctorate in history at Harvard University in 2008 with a dissertation entitled "Cathedrals of Words: Bishops and the Deeds of their Predecessors in Lotharingia, 950-1100." As a Mellon Fellow at the Institute. He will expand on his doctoral study and explore episcopal hagiography and historiography produced in seven Lotharingian dioceses under the general rubric of bishops and bishop-saints in Lotharingia

Spencer Young
(Mellon Fellow; LMS Candidate), earned a doctorate in history in 2009 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation entitled "Queen of the Faculties: Theology and Theologians at the University of Paris, c 1215 – c 1250." As a Mellon Fellow at the Institute he proposes to trace the tradition of the "offspring of the capital vices" from its origins in the Latin west to the end of the Middle Ages with a special interest in how theologians used that tradition to shape moral behaviour.

Marco Zuccato
(LMS Candidate) earned his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Melbourne in 2005 with a dissertation "The Earliest Filtration of Arabic Science to the Latin World: Gerbert d'Aurillac and the case of Gotmar's circle." He has held research positions in Munich, Barcelona, Dunedin, and Toronto and most recently at CNRS Paris. Dr Zuccato's research project at the Institute bears the title "Horologia, Memory and Manual Crafts: A Crucial Epistemological Shift in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Europe."

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