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Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowship in Cultural Literacy Generously Established by Steven and Barbara Mendell The Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowship in Cultural Literacy was established in 2006 by a generous gift from Steven and Barbara Mendell. Mr. Mendell is a life-time member of the U.C. Santa Barbara Foundation since 1983, serving as its Chair in 2003-05. Believing that it is the responsibility of liberal arts institutions to support scholarship and teaching that advance a civil society, the endowment was established to encourage discussion and debate relating to the compelling questions of ethics and values in contemporary public life, and with attention particularly about how these questions might be informed by knowledge of history and cultural traditions. Consistent with the goals of the Capps Center, the endowment supports one or more fellowship stipends each year for outstanding graduate students in the College of Letters and Science at UCSB (Humanities and Fine Arts, Social Sciences, Science) whose research or programs of study advance the goals of broad-based cultural literacy and high ethical standards in our participative democracy. Although the scope of possible research topics for funding is wide, all such topics must relate to some aspect of contemporary values and ethics in the “public sphere,” such as the importance of civility and tolerance, appreciation for pluralism and human rights, understanding better how public issues are framed, ways in which social conflict is resolved, improving and extending democratic practice, and the role of public humanities generally in society. Support may be provided for dissertation fellowships, supplemental fellowships, summer stipends, or for special research projects. To apply, please download the following two documents: Application
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will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary faculty committee and
awards announced by June 1, 2009. Recipients of Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowship in Cultural Literacy: 2008-2009 Kristen Abigail Shedd, Religion, Communism, and the Religiously Unorthodox in Cold War America Brooke Neely, Contested Knowledge: Cultural Memory, Land Use, and Racial Politics in the Black Hills Colleen Windham, Being Born and Born Again: The Horizon of Birth in Individual and Collective Experience Recipients of Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowship in Cultural Literacy: 2007-2008 Evan Berry, Devoted to Nature: Secularization, Spirituality, and Environmentalism in America Stephanie Stillman, Remembering Columbine: The Network, Labor, and Haunting of an American Memory Recipients of Earlier Capps Graduate Fellowships Funded by the Department of Education: 2004-2005 Vincent Biondo, Democracy and Dialogue: Walter Capps and Hannah Arendt on Faith and Politics Drew Bourn, Religious Responses to Prostitution in San Francisco 2003-2004 Elizabeth Currans, Topic: Women, Public Life, and Religion Finbar Curtis, Topic: Speaking of the Nation: William Jennings Bryan, Al Smith, and the Idioms of American Populism Matthew Sutton, Topic: Aimee Semple McPherson and the Remaking of American Evangelicalism 2002-2003 Mary C. Ingram, Topic: Claiming Controversial Science: Competing Religious Discourses on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Therapeutic Cloning William Robert, Topic: The Public Dimension of Religion in the Life and Work of Simone Weil. |
