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Princeton University, United States

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Established in 1988, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is committed to supporting demographic transformation in higher education and to promoting the value of multivocality in the humanities and related disciplines. Its name honors Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the noted African American educator, statesman, minister, and former president of Morehouse College. Through a pipeline process that emphasizes mentoring, research support, programming, and student cohort building, the Mellon Foundation partners with member colleges and universities to identify and support students of great promise and to help them become scholars and professionals of the highest distinction. (Learn more about the national MMUFprogram (Link is external), (Link opens in new window) .)

The Princeton MMUF program comprises professional development, research support, faculty mentorship, special credit-bearing seminars, teaching exploration, writing workshops, publication planning, paid committee service, and free expert PhD application preparation. Through those features, the program introduces undergraduate Mellon Fellows to the four pillars of faculty work life – research, teaching, service, and mentorship – as well as to past and current trends in the academic humanities. 

Princeton University has been an MMUF member institution since 1989. Over the years, Princeton’s program alone has produced four percent of the national number of MMUF PhDs. The University is also home to one of the nation’s largest MMUF alumni communities – in the ranks of its graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and staff.


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