CMRS is in Royce Hall's east tower, suite 302, at the top of the Janss Steps in the North Core of campus. From the front of the building, use the right-hand (east) corridor and take the staircase to your right as you enter the building, or take the elevator (at the end of the hall, near the back door). The campus map at www.ucla.edu provides additional information.
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies offers scholars from schools and institutions other than UCLA the chance to carry on their research at UCLA as either a Visiting Scholar or a Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
Each year, CMRS sponsors Distinguished Visiting Scholars whose knowledge enriches the academic life of UCLA’s students and faculty, and promotes scholarship in the larger community. CMRS DVS present classes and seminars, participate in conferences and symposia, and deliver public lectures.
2008–09
Rick H. Derksen, a leading authority on historical Slavic and Baltic linguistics, is on the faculty of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, and has taught in the Departments of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Slavic Studies at Leiden University. Dr. Derksen has recently published the monumental Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) and is a collaborator on the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project at Leiden University. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Indo-European Studies Program, November 2008. Public Lecture: “The Significance of the Baltic Languages in the Reconstruction of Indo-European,” November 18, 2008, Humanities Building, Room 193, 4 pm.
Miguel Falomir is Curator of Renaissance Paintings at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, home to many Renaissance masterpieces. He is the author of Tintoretto (London: 2007), which accompanied the first modern exhibition of the Renaissance painter Jacopo Tintoretto’s works since 1937, and co-author of the forthcoming Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian (National Gallery London: 2008). CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art History, February 2009. Public Lecture: “Art and Politics at the Habsburg Imperial Court c. 1550,” February 3, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm.
Margaret Mullett is currently Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. In fall 2009, she will become Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. Professor Mullett, an expert on all aspects of Byzantine cultural history, has written on literacy, patronage, letter-writing, genre, gender, and friendship in Byzantine society. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art History, November 2008. Public Lecture: “Managing Emotion in the Byzantine Twelfth Century: The Consolations of Rhetoric,” November 12, 2008, Royce 306, 4 pm.
Ruairí Ó hUiginn is Professor of Irish at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is an expert of both medieval and modern Irish language, and has published
extensively on medieval Irish literature. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Celtic Studies, March 2009. Public Lecture: “Transforming the Medieval into the Modern: Irish Literature in Spanish Flanders,” March 11, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm.
Jesús D. Rodriguez-Velasco, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University, and at UC Berkeley, is an authority on medieval and early modern history, law, political theory, and literature. His most recent projects concern chivalric institutions of the fourteenth century, glossed manuscripts produced for private libraries during the fifteenth century, and the political theories common to the Italian cities, Burgundy, and Castile. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Departments of History and Spanish & Portuguese, May 2009. Public Lecture: May 20, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm.
Gísli Sigurðsson is Research Professor and Head of the Department of Folkloristics at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies on the campus of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Scandinavian Section, Spring 2009. Public Lecture: May 19, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm.
UCLA Visiting Scholars are senior scholars and distinguished visitors who hold a doctoral degree or the foreign equivalent and who hold an appointment comparable to those of UCLA faculty, and are usually on temporary leave from their universities or research centers. They visit the campus for relatively short periods of time (no longer than one year), serve as senior researchers, collaborate on research projects and publications with faculty members, and pursue independent research. Visiting Scholars receive library privileges and access to special research collections. Appointments are honorary (non-salaried) and Visiting Scholars must be self-supported or have adequate support funds from outside of the university. Applicants must be nominated by CMRS and approved by the UCLA Graduate Division. Further information from the University is available at www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/vsapply.htm.
Application Procedure
Scholars working in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies may request to be considered by the Center as a Visiting Scholar.
Applicants should submit the following:
a letter introducing yourself and indicating your desire to be nominated by the Center as a UCLA Visiting Scholar
affiliated with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies;
a one page description of the research you plan to pursue at UCLA and your own research interests;
a curriculum vitae (CV).
Send the application materials to:
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Attention: Visiting Scholar Program
Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485
Please note that the Center cannot provide housing or office space for its Visiting Scholars. Additionally, UCLA Visiting Scholars are not automatically granted access to non-UCLA research collections, such as those at the Getty Research Institute or the Huntington Library in San Marino. Scholars wishing to access non-UCLA collections should contact the specific institution directly about the applying for reader privileges.
