Helen Wallis Fellowships awarded, 1999-

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Helen Wallis Fellowships at the British Library (1999- )

No award was made in 2008 or 2009

The award for 2007/08 was made to Carolyn Anderson. She is engaged in a thesis on 'Constructing the Military Landscape: the Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland c. 1707-1815', under the joint supervision of Professor Charles Withers (University of Edinburgh) and Chris Fleet of the National Library of Scotland.

Two awards were made for 2006:

John-Paul Ghobrial, a doctoral student at Princeton University, who is working on the history of printing and the book in the Ottoman Empire, will be at the British Library from November 2006 until May 2007
Tina Harris, a doctoral student at the City University New York, whose thesis is entitled, ‘On the Tail of the Yak: the Social Geography of Tibetan Trade’, spent time in the British Library this summer (June-August 2006), and will return for the equivalent period in 2008

No award was made in 2005

I am pleased to announce that the eighth Helen Wallis Fellow, Joseph Loh, a doctoral student at Columbia University, New York, who is researching the western influences on Japanese cartographical screens, took up residence in the British Library's Map Library in September 2004. He intends to work here for a full year

The fellowship, named after the former Map Librarian, the late Dr Helen Wallis, 'confers recognition by the Library on a scholar whose work will help promote the extended and complementary use of the British Library's book and cartographic collections in historical investigation'. The Wallis Fellow has similar privileges to those accorded the Centre for the Book Fellows (with an additional £300 to spend on BL services).

For the full terms of reference please contact peter.barber(at)bl.uk [replacing (at) with @]

Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, The British Library

I am pleased to announce that the seventh Helen Wallis Fellow, Iride Rosa, a doctoral student attached to the University of Naples who is researching into early English printed town panoramas, will be taking up residence in the British Library's Map Library in September 2003. She intends to work here for a full year.

Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections, The British Library
July 2003

The British Library is very happy to announce that the fifth Helen Wallis Fellow, Heather Ewing, a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington DC , took up residence in the Map Library of the British Library on 2 September, initially for 3 months. In January she will be joined, as sixth Helen Wallis Fellow, by Alistair Maeer a Transatlantic History Doctoral student in the history department of the University of Texas, Arlington.

Heather is carrying out research for the first full-length biography of James Smithson (1765?-1829) , the English mineralogist and Grand Tourist whose bequest established the Smithsonian. Alistair is working on English cartography and the expansion of seventeenth-century English trade.

September 2002

The fourth Helen Wallis Fellow, Jon Carlson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, took up residence in the Map Library on 22 May 2002 for three months.

Jon Carlson will be researching the process by which the modern European global system expanded to include new regions, and the underlying economic, political and cultural processes that accompanied this expansion with particular reference to the Native Americans of the Vancouver Island region, the Asanti of West Africa, the kingdom of Abyssinia and Japan.

May 2002

The third Helen Wallis Fellow, Priya Satia, a graduate student in the History Department, University of California at Berkeley, took up residence in the Map Library on 3 September 2001 for 6 months.

Priya Satia will examine in her project how the British approached the problem of intelligence in the Middle East during the first part of the 20th century and the political and cultural implications of their tactics.

September 2001

The second Wallis Fellow, Anne Elizabeth Nellis, takes up residence in the British Library Map Library on 31 July 2000. The fellowship, named after the former Map Librarian, the late Helen Wallis, 'confers recognition by the Library on a scholar whose work will help promote the extended and complementary use of the British Library'.

Anne Nellis's research topic, 'The English landscape painter abroad', revolves around the representation of Italy in the post-Napoleonic period. She is a graduate student in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, Providence, USA. She is concurrently the holder of a fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - close to the British Library. She plans to remain in London until May 2001.

July 2000

The first Wallis Fellow, Professor Henry J Steward, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A., was in residence in 1999. His topic was 'Francis Louis Barrallier (1773-1853)'.