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.
It is rumored to have been begun as a consolation prize for seniors failing to win either a Rhodes or a Marshall Scholarship.
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
- 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
- 1991: Samantha Herrick
- 1986: Alva Noë
- 1979: Steve Fuller
- 1977: Barry Bergdoll
- 1974: James Russell
- 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
- 1925: Lionel Trilling
