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