Selection Committee Chooses Fourteen '81 Mellon Fellows

A selection committee this month announced 14 Mellon Foundation Fellowships for 1981-82.

The fellows will hold one year appointments with departmental affiliations, offering undergraduate courses, teaching in the Freshman Seminar program, or researching individual projects, Richard M. Hunt, director of the program, said Wednesday.

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The fellowships are granted to non-tenured faculty members who have had at least two years teaching experience in the Humanities. The fellows chosen in a nationwide competition of 228 candidates are:

Marilyn J. Blackwell, assistant professor of German at the University of Virginia; Elizabeth Block '65, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania: John B. Childs, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at Yale University; William Eamon, assistant professor of History of Science at New Mexico State University; Catherine Z. Elgin, unaffiliated, who will study Philosophy; Michael T. Ferejohn, assistant professor of English at Washington State University; Thomas L. Jeffers, assistant professor of English at Cornell University; Edward Kadletz, assistant professor of Classics at Ball State University (Ind.); Kent Kraft, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia; Elaine T. May, assistant professor of History of American Civilization at the University of Minnesota; Heather McClave, assistant professor of English at the College; Dian Murray, assistant professor of History and East Asian Languages at Linfield College (Ore.); Stephen M. Poppel '65, assistant professor of History at Bryn Mawr College; and Ines M. Talamantez, assistant professor of Religion at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

The Mellon program "helps scholars to stay in academic life when many are driven to business and other pursuits," Hunt said.

In the program's five-year history, several Mellon fellows have written articles or books while at Harvard, Hunt said, adding that most receive tenure within two years after their fellowships.