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.
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
- 2021: Naomi Barraza Castillo, Simon Cohen, and Julia Udell
- 2016: Eliav Grossman
- 2010: Amanda Parsons and Charles Clavey
- 2009: Daniel Blank and Rudi Batzell
- 2008: Andrew Ollett and Marbre Stahly-Butts
- 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
- 2000: Colleen Roh and Abigail Krauser
- 1999: Yi-Ping Ong
- 1991: Samantha Herrick
- 1990: Thaddeus Grimes-Gruczka and Anne Taranto
- 1986: Alva Noë
- 1979: Steve Fuller
- 1977: Barry Bergdoll
- 1975: Michael Ansali, Glen Bacal, Richard Horn, Harry Park, and Jeffrey Seroy
- 1974: David Katz, James Russell, Ashoka Varma, Eric White, and Leon Wieseltier
- 1972: James Lehmann, Ben Lieber, Jody Pope, Harold Sackheim, Henry Turrin, and Robert Wallace
- 1971: Benson Bobric, Martin Flumenbaum, Sanford Freedman, Terry Kogan, Peter Nosco, Philip Nord, Roy Rosenzweig, Matthew Santirocco, and Jon Whitman
- 1968: Terrell Carver, Robert Delaunty, Steven Gross, Jonathan Kotch, Michael Neuman, and David Shapiro
- 1967: John W. ELsberg, Jeremy G. Epstein, Aaron M. Fogel, John R. Pitkin, and David A. Schiff
- 1966: Charles Jurrist, Ira Katznelson, Robert Newsom and Jonathan Sunshine
- 1964: Peter Donaldson, Richard Epstein, Michael Pickard, and Irving Spitzberg. Alumni Laszlo C. Bardosy, Norman E. Hildesheim, Peter E. Winn, and Christopher S. Woodman also won the "Special Kellett Fellowship" for continuing graduate education.
- 1963: Eric Foner, David K. Mano, and James S. Weiskopf
- 1962: Richard Locke, Peter Winn, and Robert Winter
- 1961: Marshall Berman, Clifford C. Huffman Jr. and James Obelkevich
- 1960: Barry S. Augenbraun, Benjamin K. Bennett, and Hillel Halkin
- 1959: Henry Ebel and Raymond Lubitz
- 1958: Robert William Hanning and Neil Harris
- 1952: Robert C. Pinckett
- 1951: Joseph Rothschild
- 1950: Norman Podhoretz
- 1949: Emanuel Chill
- 1948: Robert L. Mills and Theron Wade Raines
- 1939: Theodore T. Dombras and Russell J. Hill
- 1938: Donald William O'Connell and Richard C. Rowland
- 1936: John Berryman (originally offered to Robert Giroux, who declined it)
- 1933: Andrew J. Chiappe
