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Kellett Fellowship

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The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship is a prestigious prize awarded annually since 1932 to two graduating seniors a year at Columbia College, an undergraduate school of Columbia University. The prize enables up to two years of study at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities in the United Kingdom.

Notable winners

  • Barry Bergdoll, art historian and Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • John Berryman, poet
  • Timothy Shenk, historian
  • 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
  • Richard A. Epstein, prominent legal scholar
  • Eric Foner, historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction
  • Steve Fuller, philosopher and sociologist
  • David S. Katz, historian of early modern England and Europe at Tel Aviv University
  • David Lehman, poet, series editor of The Best American Poetry
  • Norman Podhoretz, a foundational figure of the neoconservative movement
  • Norman F. Ramsey, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • James R. Russell, scholar of Armenian studies
  • 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

    • References

    Kellett Fellowship Wikipedia
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