Grant Enables Smith to Focus on Emerging Areas of Scholarship Via Postdoctoral Fellows

Supported by a $435,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Smith College will host four postdoctoral fellows in the humanities and social sciences over the next five years.

Smith's Mellon Fellows are expected to teach and pursue scholarship in several emerging areas in the curriculum, particularly interdisciplinary fields such as women's studies, media and culture, environmental public policy, landscape studies, Caribbean literature, and Islamic art and architecture.

The fellows will join a growing community of postdoctoral researchers in the sciences, as well as Smith's Mendenhall Fellows, minority scholars in residence at the college to complete their doctoral dissertations. The first Mellon Fellow is expected to begin his or her two-year residency at Smith this fall.

Smith College is consistently ranked among the nation's best liberal arts colleges. Enrolling 2,800 students from every state and 50 other countries, Smith is the largest undergraduate women's college in the United States.