The Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe

We are an interdisciplinary consortium that sponsors graduate research abroad, faculty-led initiatives to partner with European institutions of higher learning, and numerous activities at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus in Baltimore.

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2026 Singleton Paper Prize Announcement

The Singleton Center is delighted to announce the joint winners of the 2025–26 Singleton Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research Paper: Ariela Algaze, Department of History of Art, and Jackson Hartigan, Department of History. In The Metalinguistic Image: Mediating Language in...

Singleton Center Distinguished Lecture 2026

The Charles S. Singleton Center Distinguished Lecturer for 2026 is Su Fang Ng, professor of English and Clifford A. Cutchins III Professor at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP 2007); Alexander...