The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University will continue its Andrew W. Mellon Mid-Career Research Fellowship Program, “Thinking the Humanities in the 21st Century,” in 2017-2018.

The Fellowship is directed toward teachers at four-year liberal arts colleges who have received tenure within the last five years. In 2017-2018 it will again welcome three outstanding scholars to the Whitney Humanities Center, where they will pursue research programs in any area of the humanities and related fields and enter into intellectual exchanges with faculty, fellows, and other visitors to the Center.

Proposals will be judged according to their creativity, breadth of implication, feasibility, and engagement in today’s thinking and rethinking of humanistic research and teaching. Fellows will remain in residence during the fall and spring semesters of a full academic year, taking part in the Whitney Fellows’ weekly gatherings. Mellon Fellows will also offer a public presentation on a topic of their choosing and participate in classroom discussions relating to their interests, though there are no formal teaching duties attached to the fellowship award.