Penn Ph.D. students have the opportunity to participate in the Graduate Humanities Forum through the Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellowship program of the Penn Humanities Forum. Ten $1000 fellowships are offered each year for graduate and professional students in all humanities-related disciplines who are interested in exploring the trends and challenges of interdisciplinary research related to the Forum's annual theme. Calls for applications are announced each January.

PHF also offers one competitive Graduate Research Assistantship each year for doctoral humanists interested in serving a leadership role in GHF and in working with the Penn Humanities Forum.

PHF Mellon Graduate Research Fellows meet biweekly to present their research (papers are precirculated) and to respond to the work of their peers. GHF Mellon Seminar members also generate a select bibliography of readings related to the theme, which they read in common throughout the year. Fellows also collaborate with the GHF RA and Faculty Advisor to plan an annual international scholarly conference on the Forum's theme. Conference calls for papers are announced in mid-summer and are open to doctoral humanists from peer institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Annual Conferences 2010 | Missed Connections (Call for Papers) 2009 | Emergence, Rupture, Transformation 2008 | Origins 2007 | Travel 2006 | Visual Dialogues 2005 | Collecting the Unconscious 2004 | Suspending (Dis)Belief 2003 | Bound, Unbound 2002 | Time/Space, Memory/Place 2001 | Thinking with Style