We are very sorry to be saying goodbye to Floris Solleveld, who has been the postdoctoral research associate working with the Bristol team on the Global Bible project for the last eighteen months.
Floris has made a splendid contribution to the project since joining us in September 2023. Among other tasks, he led on the Translating Colonialism conference, writing the call for papers and helping define its major theme. He has been active in searching out new and exciting archival sources in many, extended trips to archives in the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. He has written a series of lively blog posts about these adventures, which you can read on this blog.
He now has a major article forthcoming with Global Intellectual History, which demonstrates his learning and scholarship and the rich possibilities for researchers accessing the linguistic resources of missionary and bible society archives. Look out for that soon.
For the next six months, Floris will be at the University of Amsterdam with a Senior Fellowship from the Vossius Centre for History of the Humanities and Sciences and an Allard Pierson Fellowship at the Amsterdam University Library Special Collections. Within that period he hopes to finish the revised manuscript of his book. In the fall he will be at the Warburg Institute in London with a Frances Yates Short-Term Fellowship.
Farewell Floris – and all the best for your future career.