Faculty Fellowship

The Madog Faculty Fellowship Program offers a stipend to one full-time faculty member each year to original research in the area of Welsh or Welsh-American culture or history.

The Madog Faculty Fellowship Program is only available to URG/RGCC Faculty.

 

List of previous fellows and their subjects

2003-2004 

DR. BETH BROWN - WALES AND THE WELSH LEGEND IN LLOYD ALEXANDER’S “PRYDIAN CHRONICLES” 

 

2004-2005 

DR. DAVID LAWRENCE - AN EXAMINATION OF THREE WELSH FOLK SONGS ARRANGED BY MERVYN BURTCH 

 

2005-2006 

PROFESSOR ELLEN BRASEL - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WELSH IN “LITTLE CARDIGANSHIRE” GALLIA AND JACKSON COUNTIES, OHIO 

 

2006-2007 

PROFESSOR KEVIN LYLES - CELTIC INFLUENCES IN EARLY WELSH/AMERICAN TOMBSTONE DESIGN 

 

2007-2008 

PROFESSOR BENJY DAVIES - “WELSH HEROES”-AN EXHIBIT OF 20 ORIGINAL DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF IMPORTANT FIGURES IN WELSH HISTORY, CULTURE AND POLITICS 

 

2008-2009 

DR. KENT WILLIAMS - THROUGH THE LATTICE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANN GRIFFITHS 

 

2009-10 

DR. DARLENE RINGHAND - HISTORIC WELSH NEEDLE ART 

 

2010-2011 

ERIC MATSON - THE EVOLUTION OF THE WELSH STICK CHAIR INTO THE AMERICAN WINDSOR CHAIR 

 

2011-2012 

DR. HEATHER DUDA - AN ASSASSIN, A BAKER, AND AN INEPT NEWSPAPER MAKER: AN AMERICAN EXPLORES THE WELSH FILM INDUSTRY 

 

2012– 2013 

DR. DANA EVANS - NEOLITHIC WALES: PASSAGE GRAVES, DOLMENS AND STANDING STONES 

 

2013-2014 

DR. ROB HOPKINS - THE ART OF SEEING WALES 

 

2014-2015 

NO AWARD 

 

2015-2016 

DR. LINDA SIGISMONDI - FROM FOLKLORE TO HERBAL MEDICINE TO SCIENCE 

 

2016-2017 

PROFESSORS BENJY DAVIES & KEVIN LYLES - PAIRED LANDSCAPES / TIRWEDDAU MEWN PARAU 

 

2017-2018 

DR. SCOTT BEEKMAN - ”THE STRANGLER” EVAN LEWIS 

 

2018-2019 

PROFESSOR VICKI CROOKS - CREATIVE AGENTS IN THE SCHOOLS: A LESSON FROM WALES 

 

2019-2020 

DR. DANA EVANS - A SHORT LOOK AT THE LONG HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN WALES 

 

2020-2021 

NO AWARD 

 

2021-2022 

Dr. Tracy Boggs - The Opioid Crisis in Swansea, Wales 

 

2022-23 

Lynley Carey and Stephanie Scott