Becoming a National Humanities Center Fellow

Event Details

Martha M. F. Kelly, vice president for scholarly programs at the National Humanities Center, will discuss the kinds of support and community scholars enjoy as residential Fellows at the Center. She will also offer an overview of the application requirements and timeline and will answer your questions! (Join our follow-up session in August, where Martha will talk in more detail about building a successful application.)

An award-winning author and NHC Fellow herself (2023–24), Martha served as associate professor of Russian studies at the University of Missouri, where she was also founding director of the Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute, prior to assuming her current role at the Center.

About the Instructor

Martha M. F. Kelly comes to the Center from the University of Missouri, where she was associate professor of Russian. She served there as the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute. Martha was part of the inaugural cohort in the university’s Faculty Institute for Inclusive Teaching and co-organizer of the Mindfulness in Teaching working group. She also advocated for shared governance and academic freedom, collaboratively restarting MU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.