Team

Chief Investigator

Matthew Champion is the Chief Investigator for the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 'The Sounds of Time'. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. After completing his doctoral studies at Queen Mary, University of London, Matthew held a Junior Research Fellowship at Queen’s College, Cambridge, a tenured Lectureship in Medieval History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Australian Catholic University. His first book, The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries was awarded the 2018 Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society. He has held fellowships at the Warburg Institute, the Newberry Library, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and the Sugden Fellowship at Queen’s College, Melbourne. He is also a chief investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Albrecht Dürer’s Material World.

Research Coordinator

Nat Cutter is a historian and early career researcher based at the University of Melbourne. His central areas of interest are diplomatic, economic and cultural relations between Britain and Islamic worlds, early modern communication, networks and media, and digital humanities. Nat is an experienced project manager, having worked on four major Australian Research Council projects, including the ongoing Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government and Albrecht Dürer’s Material World. In 2021, he was awarded the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize for work on information flows between Britain and the Maghreb, and an ASECS-Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship examining the intersections of Anglo-Maghrebi diplomacy, public performance, and newspaper advertising. In 2022, he will take up a Short-Term Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California.

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Research Associate

Charlotte Colding Smith’s BA (Hons) and PhD at the University of Melbourne, resulted in the monograph, Images of Islam, 1453–1600: Turks in Germany and Central Europe (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014). Subsequently a lecturer and a researcher at the University of Mannheim on the Desbillons Project, she was from 2016 till 2020 a Museums Fellow and Research Associate at the German Maritime Museum (Leibnitz Institute for Maritime History), Bremerhaven, Germany, in conjunction with teaching at the University of Oldenburg; since 2021 she has been Postdoctoral Research Associate and Assistant to the University of Bonn. She has held fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig; the British Museum, London; the Scott Polar Museum and Institute, University of Cambridge; the Getty Research Institute and Library, Los Angeles; the University of Heidelberg and the University of Vienna.

Research Associate

Sarah Griffin works on late medieval visual culture, particularly that related to time, technology, and diagrams. After studying her BA at the University of Cambridge and MA at the Courtauld Institute, Sarah wrote a DPhil thesis at the University of Oxford on the diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296­–c. 1352). She has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Collaboration with museums is central to her research; she has worked in a curatorial capacity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Winchester College, and with multiple collections as a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Sarah is currently a Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow at The Warburg Institute.

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Research Associate

After graduating in history from the University of Valladolid, Victor Pérez Álvarez defended his thesis on the history of mechanical horology in the kingdom of Castile between the 14th and the 16th centuries. In 2017 he was awarded with the García-Diego Prize by the Foundation "Juanelo Turriano" for his research on the medieval clock of Toledo Cathedral. Victor has been Sackler Fellow at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Currently he is researching the people involved in the horological trade of Madrid during the 16th century. Victor is also an apprentice watchmaker to an antiquarian horologist in London.

Research Associate

Jeremy Thompson studies medieval intellectual history. He earned his doctoral degree in 2014 from the University of Chicago and from 2018 to 2021 held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Latin at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since 2017 he has been studying the impact of the quadrivium – the medieval science curriculum consisting of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy – on philosophical and religious thought from 800 to 1250. His broader work aims to disentangle the complex histories of concept and imagery in the development of medieval symbolism. He is particularly interested in the reception of Boethius’s treatise The Fundamentals of Arithmetic, the continuity of classical arithmology in the Middle Ages, the development of numerical cognition, the commentary tradition around Bede’s On the Nature of Things, and the symbolic interpretation of the compass, the noonday demon and the horologium of Ahaz.