Grants, Prizes, and Awards

Individual External Grants
Collaborative and Team-Based Grants
Internal Individual Grants
Other Dutch Research Council (NWO) Grants
Prizes, Awards, etc.


Individual External Grants

2026-2031 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Vidi Grant (€850 000) for “DISMANTLE: Disability and Mobility aids in Northwestern-European Textual, Literary and Artistic Evidence, 1100-1500”

2025-2026 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition SSH-XS Grant (€50 000) for “MAMA: Maternal Age in the Middle Ages”

2024-2025 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition SSH-XS Grant (€50 000) for “Guide Dogs in Medieval Artistic and Textual Sources”

2020-2024 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Veni Grant (€250 000) for “Righting and Rewriting History: Recovering and Analyzing Manuscript Archives Destroyed During World War II”

2019-2021 Dutch Research Council (NWO)/NRO Comenius Fellowship Grant (€50 000) for “The Open Medieval Editions by Students Project (TOMES)”

2018 Europeana Foundation Research Grant for “A Digital Database of Manuscripts and Intercultural Dialogue in Post-Conquest England,” an online dataset of over 600 French manuscripts produced in medieval England


Collaborative and Team-Based Grants

2021 Exeter College of the Humanities Global Partnership Development Grant for “English Glosses to the Tretiz,” a project aimed at TEI-encoding a medieval French and English language learning guide (with Thomas Hinton and Edward Mills, University of Exeter)

2020 Leiden University Language Education Grant (€10 000) awarded for the development of “The Epic Course: A Pre-Modern Genre in the Modern Digital Realm,” a cross-disciplinary digital project-based MA course; I initiated this collaboration (with Bram Caers, Emma Grootveld, Alisa van de Haar and Johannes Müller, Leiden University)

2019 Humanities Faculty Research Traineeship Grant for “ ‘Pour aprendre romain’: Learning French Outside of France, 1250-1600”; enabled the hiring of two research trainees for 7 months at 0,15 fte (with Alisa van de Haar, Leiden)

2017 Leiden University Expertise Center for Online Learning (ECOLe) Blended Learning Grant (€5000) awarded to develop a digital game for teaching Old English; “The Leiden University ColloQuest” (with Thijs Porck, Leiden)

2016 Humanities Faculty Grant (€17 000) awarded for the development of “Leiden University Medieval Texts Online,” a platform designed to host students’ digital medieval projects (with Erik Kwakkel and Thijs Porck, Leiden)


Internal Individual Grants

2019 Leiden University Expertise Center for Online Learning (ECOLe) Blended Learning Grant (€5000) awarded to lead a team of two research assistants on the development of a Middle English web resource, The Leiden Interactive Middle English Site (LIMES)

2019 Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities Small Grant (€1000); declined due to covid restrictions


Other Dutch Research Council (NWO) Grants

Open Access Book Grant (€9 317) to support the open access publication of Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 to 1500 (London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2026)

Open Access Book Grant (€10 000) to support the open access publication of The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

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Selected Prizes, Awards, and Other Honours

2026 Milne, K.A., The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections (Oxford University Press, 2025) named a finalist for the 2026 SHARP Book History Book Prize ($1,250); the winner will be announced in July 2026

2025 Named a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society for contributions to historical scholarship

2025 Early Theatre Best Article in Theatre History, honourable mention/second place (€100)

2018 Leiden Teaching Prize for the Humanities Nomination (shortlisted)

2015 NeMLA Graduate Student Caucus Essay Award ($200)

2015 UVic Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship

2014 NeMLA Graduate Travel Award, adjudicated based on conference abstract quality

2014-2015 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2013-2014 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2012-2013 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2010-2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2010-2015 University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship

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