Merle Curti Teaching Fellowship

This fellowship commemorates the distinguished historian Professor Merle Curti (1897-1996), who taught in our department from 1942 until his retirement in 1968. He held the Frederick Jackson Turner Professorship of History for most of that time. Among his many honors, Professor Curti served as president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (later, of the Organization of American Historians, 1951-1952, and of the American Historical Association, 1953-1954). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for The Growth of American Thought (1943). More…

Offered in alternate years, the fellowship provides one semester of support (tuition, stipend, etc.) for an advanced dissertator to teach an undergraduate course of their own design. The fellowship is open to students in any field. The call for applications is distributed in early Spring with an application deadline of March 1 for a fellowship to be held the following spring.

Merle Curti Teaching Fellows

• 2018-2019
  
  Maggie Flamingo
  
  Course: The War for American Culture
• 2016-2017
  
  Camden Hutchison
  
  Course: History of Video Games
• 2014-2015
  
  Steve Pierce
  
  Course: Global Islams: Histories of Multiple Muslim Modernities
• 2012-2013
  
  David Rodriguez
  
  Course: US-Latin American Relations since 1945
• 2010-2011
  
  Keith Woodhouse
  
  Course: The Culture Wars
• 2008-2009
  
  Margaret Lee
  
  Course: American Suburb 1850-on