Kellett Fellowships

The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship is a prestigious prize awarded to two graduating seniors a year at Columbia College. The prize enables up to two years of study at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities.

You can begin the application process at the Fellowships Office.

Winners

Past notable winners

• Barry Bergdoll, art historian and Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• John Berryman, poet
• José A. Cabranes, judge on the US Court of Appeals; first Puerto Rican to sit in a US District Court
• Christopher Dell, career diplomat; current US ambassador to Tanzania
• Eric Foner, historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction
• Steve Fuller, philosopher and sociologist
• David Lehman, poet
• Norman Podhoretz, a foundational figure of the neoconservative movement
• Norman F. Ramsey, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
• James Russell, Armenian Studies scholar
• David Shapiro, poet
• Thomas Sugrue, historian of twentieth-century U.S. and civil rights
• Lionel Trilling, literary critic
• Leon Wieseltier, literary editor for the New Republic
• Sean Wilentz, historian of nineteenth-century U.S. and music critic

Recorded history of winners

• 2009: Daniel Blank and Rudi Batzell
• 2008: Andrew Ollett and Marbre Stahly-Butts
• 2007: Tim Shenk and Susanna Berger
• 2006: Rachel Lesser and Jacob Stulberg
• 2005: Jacob Hupart and Alexander Zachary
• 2003: R.J. Jenkins and Jonathan Manes
• 2002: Toby Lee and David Kagan
• 2001: Luke Leafgren and Charles Yackulic
• 2000: Colleen Roh and Abigail Krauser
• 1999: Yi-Ping Ong
• 1991: Samantha Herrick
• 1990: Thaddeus Grimes-Gruczka and Anne Taranto
• 1986: Alva Noë
• 1979: Steve Fuller
• 1977: Barry Bergdoll
• 1974: James Russell and Leon Wieseltier
• 1972: Joseph Pope
• 1971: Roy Rosenzweig and Matthew Santirocco
• 1964: Peter Donaldson
• 1963: Eric Foner
• 1951: Joseph Rothschild
• 1950: Norman Podhoretz
• 1949: Emanuel Chill
• 1948: Robert Mills
• 1938: Richard Rowland
• 1936: John Berryman