Mellon Discovery Fellowships

The Mellon Discovery Fellowship program brings together graduate students from a variety of disciplines at the early stages of their careers in order to encourage collaborative exchange from the very beginning of graduate study. Supported by the Townsend Center and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program supports seven entering graduate students in the humanities and related fields for their first three years of graduate work at Berkeley.

Eligibility

Each department in the humanities and social sciences is eligible to nominate one incoming student per year for a Discovery Fellowship. Nominations are evaluated on the basis of the student’s potential for graduate study and interdisciplinary exchange.

Discovery Fellows are awarded $5,000 for each of their first three summers of graduate study. Fellows work one summer as a research assistant with a faculty member from a different discipline and one summer with a faculty member in their own department. A third summer may be dedicated to a project of the student’s own choosing.

Download the 2010-2013 Discovery Fellowship nomination guidelines:
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The nomination deadline for 2010-2013 is February 8, 2010.

For information about the 2009-2012 Discovery Fellows, click here.

For questions about the program, please contact Fellowships Coordinator Bridgette Lehrer at blehrer@berkeley.edu.