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National Humanities Center Names Fellows
News Release Date: April 14, 2003 Research Triangle Park, NC— The National Humanities Center has announced the appointment of 41 Fellows for the academic year 2003-04. 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 Israel, Italy, and the United Kingdom. They will work individually on research projects in the humanities, and will exchange ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences. "I look forward to welcoming this exciting group of scholars," said Geoffrey Harpham, Director of the National Humanities Center. "They represent a truly remarkable range of interests." Twenty-nine of the scholars who will spend the coming year together were chosen through the Center's annual fellowship competition, in which 549 applications were received. The class will also include six Senior Fellows, invited by the Center's Board, and six young scholars who have received Burkhardt Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. In addition to the Fellows, the Center will have in residence as a distinguished visitor the noted anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes. The National Humanities Center will grant $1.2 million to the 2003-04 Fellows to enable them to take leave from their normal academic responsibilities while pursuing their research at the Center. Funding for these fellowships is made possible by the Center's endowment, by contributions from alumni Fellows of the Center, and by grants from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant from the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis will support four Fellows who will participate in a seminar on religion and the humanities. The National Humanities Center, located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978 the Center has awarded fellowships to leading scholars in the humanities, whose work at the Center has resulted in the publication of more than 800 books in all fields of humanistic study. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen the teaching of the humanities in secondary and higher education. To part 2 of 2, National Humanities Center 7 Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12256 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 Phone: (919) 549-0661 Fax: (919) 990-8535 Comments and questions, contact: lmorgan@ga.unc.edu Revised: April 2003 nationalhumanitiescenter.org |