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TO APPLY
Please email your application to Jennifer Conway by end of day Sunday, March 16. Applications emailed after 12 midnight 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 16 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).

 

  
Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Mellon Research Fellowships

Call for Applications, 2008–2009
Topic: CHANGE

Application Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2008dots
Growth, evolution, revolution, entropy, chaos, metamorphosis, transubstantiation: what notion of Change is your storm of contention?

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.