Research Triangle Park, NC—The National Humanities Center has announced the appointment of 39 Fellows for the academic year 2002-03. Representing history, literature, philosophy, and half a dozen other humanistic fields of study, these scholars will come to the Center from the faculties of colleges and universities across the United States and also from Canada, Israel, and the United Kingdom. They will work individually on research projects in the humanities, and will exchange ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences. Among the prospective Fellows will be several scholars engaged in the study of religion and American culture and several others whose research concerns environmental history.

In support of these resident scholars the Center has awarded a total of $1.4 million in research fellowships. Sources of funding for individual fellowships include grants from the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Twenty-two fellowships will be supported by the Center's endowment, and one fellowship will be supported by the contributions of alumni Fellows of the Center.