Washington University in St. Louis
The Center for the Humanities
Dedicated to Letters and Humanistic Research and Their Presence in Public Life

Dear Students:

You have been nominated to apply to The Undergraduate Honors Fellowship Program. Modeled after the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, the Honors Fellowship is meant to encourage exceptionally promising students to pursue independent research by writing an Honors Thesis. Fellows develop a strong working relationship with a faculty mentor and, through required attendance at the weekly seminar, a sense of community with one another. During the seminar, Fellows from various disciplines, under the guidance of a faculty member and a graduate student assistant, present for rigorous scrutiny their research projects as these projects develop from stage to stage, from draft to draft. The Fellows' faculty mentors work closely with Fellows in developing and critiquing their projects.

The mentors usually attend the seminar when their Fellow is presenting. The program is designed to give the students a sense of the life of the mind and the life of a graduate student. The Honors Fellows Program was launched in the Fall of 2002...

Gerald Early
Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters
Director, The Center for the Humanities
Faculty Coordinator, Undergraduate Honors Fellowship program
(excerpt from Letter from the Faculty Coordinator)

To access application materials and the Fellows' Publications slideshow, visit the Undergraduate Honors Fellowship official website.