Kellett Fellowship

The Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship is a prestigious prize awarded annually since 1932 to two graduating seniors a year at Columbia College, the main undergraduate school of Columbia University. The prize enables up to two years of study at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities in the United Kingdom.^[1]

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

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