Application Deadline:
March 17, 2008
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TO APPLY
Please email
your application to Jennifer
Conway, Associate
Director, Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk/6213
(Room 207). Applications emailed after midnight,
Sunday, March 17, will be considered ineligible.
Also required: One
(1) confidential letter of recommendation from your
Undergraduate Chair or other Penn faculty member in
your major. We strongly recommend that
you request the letter at least 3-4 weeks ahead of
the March 17 deadline to allow the faculty member plenty
of lead time, given his or her other responsibilities.
Faculty should email their letters directly to Jennifer
Conway at the Forum.
Questions? Email or
call Jennifer Conway
Associate Director
Penn Humanities Forum
Tel: 215.898.8220
Calls for application
are posted each year in January. The application deadline
is mid-March for each subsequent year's fellowship.
Full fellowship guidelines and application are available
on the Forum's website during each Call for Applications
cycle (January–mid-March).
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Undergraduate
Humanities Forum
Mellon Research Fellowships
Call for Applications, 2008–2009
Topic: CHANGE
Growth, evolution, revolution, entropy,
chaos, metamorphosis, transubstantiation: what notion of
Change is your storm of contention?
Application
Deadline: Sunday,
March 17, 2008
The Penn Humanities Forum announces the availability
of twenty undergraduate humanities research fellowships
for the 2008–2009 academic year.
One $1700 Mellon Coordinating Research
Fellowship and nineteen $800 Mellon Research Fellowships are
available.
In addition to conducting research, the Coordinating
Research Fellow acts as the undergraduate liaison to the Penn
Humanities Forum.
Who is eligible? The competition
is open to any full-time Penn undergraduate student enrolled
in any school who is interested in conducting research on
a humanistic topic that relates to Change,
the Forum's topic of study next academic year. Fellows must
be in residence during the entire fellowship year.
The Penn Humanities Forum Undergraduate Mellon
Research Fellowships are intended to encourage a variety
of projects. These may include research papers, performances,
original exhibitions, or innovative designs. Work may be
individual or collaborative and could involve travel to
libraries, archives, or other institutions. The only restriction
on the content of proposals is that they must relate to Change,
the topic of the Penn Humanities Forum for the 2008–2009
academic year.
PHF Undergraduate Mellon Research Fellows
are expected to participate in regular lunch or dinner discussions
throughout the year, sometimes in the company of guest faculty.
Students are encouraged to organize academic or cultural
events for the group during the year according to their
individual interests (e.g., a speaker, museum or concert
trip, etc.). Fellows also help organize and attend the spring
Undergraduate Humanities Forum Conference, at which they
present their completed projects.
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