The Humanities Center has initiated a new collaboration with the recently renamed Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, a program of postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford. The affiliation aims to bring together two cohorts of fellows in the humanities at Stanford to foster productive intellectual exchange.
The faculty co-directors of the Mellon Fellowship, Lanier Anderson and J. P. Daughton, will continue to oversee the annual selection of new postdoctoral fellows as well as the running of the program, which includes a year-long program of events fostering professional development of the postdocs, as well as a public lecture series featuring distinguished visiting scholars. Postdoctoral fellows will still be affiliated with and housed in individual humanities departments.
As part of the collaboration. the postdoctoral fellows are now invited to participate in all aspects of the intellectual life of the Humanities Center. They are encouraged to attend and propose workshops and to have lunch at the Center throughout the year.
The administrative office of the Mellon Fellowship has also moved to the Humanities Center, and we are delighted to announce the hire of a new program officer, Krista Featherstone. Krista comes to us with experience at the Stanford Law School where she oversaw the administration of their International Graduate Programs. She just completed her MA in Education at Stanford with a specialization in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies. Welcome Krista!
