The Mellon Project has selected the doctoral fellow for 2004-05:

Jessica Heineman-Pieper, works on her joint dissertation research "The Value of Imperfection: What infants might learn about unfamiliar actions by observing the process of making them more efficient" and "The Study of Intentions in Psychology: An Historical Inquiry." Jessica is a Doctoral Candidate in both the Psychology Department and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago.

The Mellon Project on "New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education" at the University of Chicago invites applications for two Dissertation Research Fellowship awards for the academic year 2005-2006. These fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be awarded to two graduate students in Humanities, Social Sciences, or Divinity School at the University of Chicago, pursuing dissertation research in a topic related to the Mellon project. The project focuses on the current disciplinary moment in American higher education: how we arrived here, how to assess and support emerging fields of study (i.e., cultural studies, area studies, general studies); how to articulate new disciplines with old; how well our institutional structures serve us at the present time; how our situation compares with that of disciplines and institutions abroad, both in the European system which initially supplied our models, and in other non-European contexts. For more online information about the Mellon Project and fellowship visit
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/mellon.

The 2005-2006 Mellon Dissertation Research Fellows will be expected to pursue his/her research in residence at the University of Chicago. S/he will be expected to participate in the Mellon Project community by attending the workshop, lectures and conference events. The fellowship carries a stipend of $19,000. To be eligible for this grant, students must have exhausted their existing aid commitments beginning in the academic year 2005-06.

The deadline for receipt in our office is Friday, April 8, 2005.

Applications should include (1) your CV; (2) a seminar paper or dissertation chapter; (3) your approved dissertation proposal, if applicable; (4) a brief statement detailing your research goals and their relation to the agenda of the Mellon Project (250-500 words); and (5) three letters of recommendation to be sent directly by the writers (letters may also be faxed to 773-702-0775).

Address all application materials to:

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee,
Franke Institute for the Humanities,
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-102,
Chicago, IL 60637.