Selection Criteria
Considerations in Selecting Mellon Fellow Participants
- Academic promise
- Interest in pursuing an academic career in Mellon – designation fields of study (see below)
- Potential for serving as a mentor and teacher for a wide variety of students
- Demonstrated commitment to increasing opportunities for under-represented minorities, breaking down stereotypes, increasing cross-racial and ethnic understanding, and enabling others to better understand persons of different races and ethnicities
- Commitment to participating fully and enthusiastically in all aspects of the MMUF program, including attendance at conferences and meetings
- US citizen or permanent resident status (except for students at the University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Mellon Designated Fields of Study
| Anthropology and Archaeology | Area/Cultural/Ethnic/Gender Studies | |
| Art History | Classics | |
| Computer Science | Geography and Population Studies | |
| Earth/Environmental/Geological Science and Ecology | English | |
| Film, Cineman and Media Studies (theoretical focus) | Musicology and Ethnomusicology | |
| Foreign Languages and Literatures | History | |
| Linguistics | Literature | |
| Mathematics | Oceanographic/Marine/Atmospheric/Planety Science | |
| Performance Studies (theoretical focus) | Philosophy and Political Theory | |
| Physics and Astronomy | Religion and Theology | |
| Sociology | Theater (theoretical focus) |
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Contact Us
Winona Wynn, PhD (Nakota, Hohe)
Associate Professor of Humanities; Ethnic Literature
Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Institutional and Summer Coordinator, The Leadership Alliance
509-865-8633
Wynn_W@heritage.edu