Research Triangle Park, N.C. The National Humanities Center announces the appointment of 42 Fellows for the academic year 2008-09. These leading scholars will come to the Center from the faculties of 25 colleges and universities in 17 states and also from eight institutions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Chosen from more than 400 applicants, they represent the fields of history, literature, philosophy, art history, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, film studies, German, musicology, politics, and other humanistic areas of study. Each Fellow will work individually on a substantial research project and will have the opportunity to share ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences at the Center.

These newly appointed Fellows will constitute the thirty-first class of resident scholars to be admitted since the Center opened in 1978. Geoffrey Harpham, Director of the National Humanities Center, said, "I look forward to welcoming these exciting individuals, who represent an astonishing range of humanistic learning, from antiquity to the present."

The National Humanities Center awards more than $1.6 million in individual fellowship grants that enable scholars to take leave from their normal academic duties and pursue research at the Center. This funding is made possible by the Center's endowment, by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Research Triangle Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by contributions from alumni and friends of the Center.

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 1,000 books in all fields of humanistic study. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen the teaching of the humanities in secondary and higher education.

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