The deadline for applications for CIC’s 2007–2008 American Graduate Fellowships (AGF) is October 15, 2007, for graduate study beginning in fall 2008. The program, made possible by a generous grant from the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation (TX), is intended to promote and support advanced study in the humanities by talented graduates of small and mid-sized private liberal arts colleges and universities.

This is the second year CIC has accepted applications for the fellowships. Fellowship recipients are awarded $50,000 for a year of graduate study—renewable for a second year—at one of 23 leading private doctoral institutions in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland:

United States: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Emory University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Rice University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale University

Great Britain and Ireland: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, King’s College London, University College London, University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin

This year’s applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished humanities scholars:

• Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Rebecca L. Copeland, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature and Director of the East Asian Studies Program, Washington University
• Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
• William C. Jordan, Professor of History and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University
• Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

The eligible fields of graduate study include history, philosophy, literature and languages, and fine arts. Guidelines and application forms for the 2007–2008 competition are available here.