Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 2, 1 February 2014 — Mellon-Hawaiʻi fellowship applications [ARTICLE]

Mellon-Hawaiʻi fellowship applications

The Mellon-Hawai'i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is accepting applications for the 2014-15 academic year. The fellowship program is for Native Hawaiian scholars early in their academic careers and others committed to advancing knowledge about the Hawaiian natural and cultural environment, Hawaiian history, politics and society. Doctoral fellows receive $45,000 to complete their dissertations before accepting their first aeademic posts. Postdoctoral fellows receive $55,000 to publish original research early in their academic careers. The programprovides fellows with opportunities to prepare presentations of their research, network and meet academic publishers who may be interested in their work. The program, open to scholars in Hawai'i and around the world, is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Kamehameha Schools, and administered by The Kohala Center. The foundation recently committed to support the program for an additional three years, through 2017. For information or to apply, visit kohalacenter.org/mellon/about. html or contact Cortney Hoffman at choffman@kohalacenter.org or (808) 887-6411. Deadline to apply

is Feb. 28.