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Research Associates

In addition to our teaching and emeritus staff, the Centre for Medieval Studies is home to research associates working on funded projects or scholars who are affiliated with the Centre.

Applications are open to researchers who have some affiliation to the Centre. Please email us at cms-office@york.ac.uk with the following documents.

●    A one-page letter of application, giving details of your research interests and indicating how research associate status will be beneficial for you.
●    A short CV of no more than two pages, with full name, address, and information on where you are currently working.

Please note that we receive many requests for Research Associate status each year, and can only accept a few due to costs and administrative time.
In most cases, associate status lasts for a maximum of two years.

Applications are considered on a first come, first serve basis, taking into consideration the following:
●    how they fit with the Centre’s research interests
●    the benefit to the Centre in terms of research engagement and potential for collaboration

Research Associates may have the opportunity to present and give a talk in one of the Centre seminars or events. 

Dr Lucy Allen-Goss

Research associate

Research interests:

Gender and sexuality, nature and horitculture

Dr Johan Bergström-Allen

Research associate

Research interests:

Medieval English literature and religious culture, with a particular focus on the literary history of the Carmelite Order in England and more broadly across Europe.

Dr James Binns

Research associate

Dr Katherine Cross

Research associate

Dr Amanda Daw

Research associate

Research interests:

The relationship between lay reception of vernacular texts and the use of imagery in parish churches and by guilds.

Dr Tracey Davison

Research associate

Research interests:

Use and perception of textiles and clothing in early medieval England

Dr Annabel Dukes

Research associate

Research interests:

Middle English, Latin and Old French lyrics, genre theory, vernacular theology, manuscript anthologies, and anchoretic literature. 

Dr Judith Frost

Research associate

Research interests:

The individuals within monastic communities in England, particularly the Regular Canons who followed the Rule of St Augustine.

Dr John Lee

Research associate

Research interests:

The economy and society of medieval England, and local and regional history. Merchants and fairs, and towns and their hinterlands, religious commemorative practices and the estates of the Knights Templar.

Professor Katherine Lewis

Research associate

Research interests:

Medieval gender, as well as medieval religious and cultural history.

Graham Paterson

Research associate

Research interests:

Old English language, prose and poetry

Edward Potten

Research associate

Research interests:

Book and library history, with a particular focus on the fifteenth century.

Dr Basil Price

Research associate

Research interests:

Old Norse, premodern colonialism in Iceland, postclassical Íslendingasögur, the intersection of race and trans embodiment in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, Medieval feminist scholarship.

Dr Emmie Price-Goodfellow

Research Associate

Research interests:

The social and cultural histories of the medieval church, particularly interactions between marginalised groups and individuals and the organs of the church.

Jill Redford

Research associate

Dr Isobel Staton

Research associate

Dr Robyn Stewart

Research associate

Dr Alex Traves

Research associate

Research interests:

The social, cultural, political, and gender history of early medieval Europe.

Diana Wallis

Research associate

Dr Diana Wyatt

Research associate

Research interests:

Early English drama and performance records, Yorkshire festive customs and plays, archival editing and lexicography

Dr Ahmad Yengimolki

Research associate

Research interests:

The phases of rapid technological and aesthetic evolution within Islamic Art. The crafts of the Ilkhanid era, the period after the Mongol conquest.

Dr Jinming Yi

Research associate

Research interests:

Urban archives and civic administration in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century England, including York.