TBA (see above link for details)
The Mellon Foundation\'s Sawyer Seminars program was established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The seminars, named in honor of the Foundation\'s long-serving third president, John E. Sawyer, have brought together faculty, foreign visitors, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from a variety of fields mainly, but not exclusively, in the humanities and social sciences, for intensive study of subjects chosen by the participants. This program aims to engage productive scholars in comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue, while at the same time avoiding the institutionalization of such work in new centers, departments, or programs. The maximum grant award for each Sawyer Seminar is $150,000. Nomination materials are due in the Provost\'s Office, 117 Bascom Hall, by January 9, 2009. A committee of senior faculty will review the proposals and select one or two to be forwarded to the Mellon Foundation.