Dr Rory Cox has won Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaboration Research Fellowship.
Rory has been appointed to a year-long Humanities Collaboration Research fellowship, based jointly at the California Institute of Technology and the Huntington Library, during the academic year 2017-2018.
The fellowship is part of a programme led by Professors Warren Brown and Jennifer Jahner. The two-year research project explores the theme ‘Violence and Order in the Pre-modern West’.
While resident at Caltech and the Huntington, Rory will pursue his current research into the evolution of justifications of war, from the ancient world to the end of the middle ages. The geographic focus of this study is the Mediterranean and northern European world.