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

The 2007 receipients were Tim Shenk and Susanna Berger. Notable winners have included:

• 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
• David Lehman, poet
• Norman Podhoretz, a foundational figure of the neoconservative movement
• Norman F. Ramsey, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 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