Research Triangle Park, N.C.  The National Humanities Center announces the appointment of 33 Fellows for the academic year 2009-10. These leading scholars will come to the Center from the faculties of 23 colleges and universities in 14 states and also from 4 institutions in other nations—Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, and The United Kingdom. Chosen from 475 applicants, they represent the fields of history, literature, philosophy, art history, anthropology, environmental studies, musicology, and religion. 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-second 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 and learning from these leading scholars. They represent an impressive range of humanistic learning."

The National Humanities Center will award nearly $900,000 in individual fellowship grants to 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 National Endowment for the Humanities, and by contributions from alumni 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 1,200 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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