Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 20-27, 1999

Volume 28, Number 5

New program will bring postdoctoral
scholars to Whitney Humanities Cente

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has selected the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) to be one of 15 institutions offering the new Woodrow Wilson postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities.

The program will bring two scholars who recently earned their Ph.Ds to the WHC, where they will spend two years as fellows, teaching one course per semester and pursuing their own work in dialogue with a group of scholars from diverse fields. Woodrow Wilson postdoctoral fellows will be assigned mentors for research and for teaching.

"Many faculty and graduate students in the humanities have long thought that such a program would be of great benefit in easing the difficult transition from graduate study to full-time faculty status in a tight job market," comments Peter Brooks, director of the WHC.

"I am pleased that the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Yale have jointly committed themselves to this bold new program."

Fellows will be expected to teach in one or more of the following interdisciplinary programs: Directed Studies, "The European Literary Tradition" (English 129), "World Literatures" (Literature 141), and the American Studies Junior Seminar.

Fellows will receive a stipend of $36,000 a year, as well as standard fringe benefits and a research account of $1,000 a year.

"This program will bring young scholars into focused intellectual contact with regular Yale faculty both at the Center and in the classroom. We expect it to provide both immediate and long-term benefits for the Fellows and the Yale community," says Charles Long, deputy provost of the University.

Applications are due on Friday, Nov. 19 for fellowships for 2000-2001.

Further information, including applications, is available on the Web at www.woodrow.org.

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