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 the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Ariela Algaze considers the function of the inscriptions in Latin,...

The Department of History and Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe are hosting a series of talks this spring by Béatrice Delaurenti, professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, on fascination and action at a distance in the Middle Ages. April 9, 5:15–6:30pm, Gilman 138D: “Fascination: An Intellectual...

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 the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance (Oxford UP 2019),...

The Singleton Center is now accepting applications for Summer/Fall 2025 Graduate Fellowships for Research in Europe. These travel grants are intended to facilitate graduate research in Europe, on topics relating broadly to Europe from Greco-Roman antiquity to the eighteenth century. The deadline for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday, April 10. Eligibility: JHU graduate...

The prize is designed to encourage and reward graduate student research and writing of the highest scholarly quality.  Papers should be no more than 10,000 words in length and may treat any aspect of pre-modern (Classical, Late Antique, Medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment) European culture, including interactions between Europe and the rest of the world.  The...

Neah Lekan’s transfeminine adaptation of Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure will take place on Monday Nov. 17, 2025 at 5pm in the Arellano Theater in Levering Hall. After the play there will be a scholarly talk-back with Julie Crawford (Columbia University) and Sawyer Kemp (CUNY), in the theatre. The Singleton Center supported this, and we...

The Singleton Center is now accepting applications for Spring 2026 Graduate Fellowships for Research in Europe. These travel grants are intended to facilitate graduate research in Europe, on topics relating broadly to Europe from Greco-Roman antiquity to the eighteenth century. The deadline for receipt of applications is noon on Monday, October 27, 2025. Eligibility: JHU...

The Singleton Center is now accepting applications for Summer/Fall 2025 Graduate Fellowships for Research in Europe. These travel grants are intended to facilitate graduate research in Europe, on topics relating broadly to Europe from Greco-Roman antiquity to the eighteenth century. The deadline for receipt of applications is noon on Monday, April 21. Eligibility: JHU graduate...

The Singleton Center is now accepting submissions for its annual paper prize, awarded to encourage and reward graduate student research and writing of the highest scholarly quality. The deadline to submit papers is noon on Monday, April 21. The winner(s), to be announced in May, will receive a $500 award. Papers should be no more than...

The Singleton Center is now accepting applications for Spring 2025 Graduate Fellowships for Research in Europe. These travel grants are intended to facilitate graduate research in Europe, on topics relating broadly to Europe from Greco-Roman antiquity to the eighteenth century. The deadline for receipt of applications is noon on Monday, October 21. Eligibility: JHU graduate...