CAMRA MELLON FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2020-2023 COHORT ARE NOW CLOSED
The fundamental objective of the CAMRA Mellon Fellowship Program is to increase the national pipeline of undergraduate students who complete Ph.D.’s in core fields that engage with both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of multimedia research, interrogating the politics of representation and power at play in visual scholarship and media as well as harnessing the potential of visual methods to democratize the production of knowledge in academic spaces. Through a three-year pipeline, the program aims to reduce the serious underrepresentation on college and university faculties of individuals from under-represented groups pursuing Ph.D.’s, as well as to address the attendant educational consequences of these disparities. The CAMRA Mellon Fellowship Program is specifically open to recruiting under-represented students, students with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities in visual media, and students who may not come from traditionally under-represented groups who have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to the goals of the program. CAMRA Mellon applicants must also be highly motivated towards gaining a Ph.D. and teaching at the university level. The CAMRA Mellon Fellowship Program provides undergraduate students with graduate school application and persistence supports and the opportunity to explore and engage multimedia forms including filmmaking and photography for their own research projects with the support and guidance of program scholars and mentors. Ideally, during the first year the Fellows will assist their mentors on a media-based project. Then, during the second year the Fellows will complete their own media-based project (e.g., documentary film, photo essay, podcast, installation). Preference will be given to projects that focus on social justice themes. The project can be for a course requirement, an independent project, or a senior thesis. During the third year of the pipeline, the program will continue to support participants through their first year in graduate school. Eligibility and Qualifications:
Each CAMRA Mellon Fellow will become part of the CAMRA community and will be expected to:
As part of this Fellowship, participants will receive the following:
Additionally, Fellows will receive program support for:
About CAMRA: CAMRA Mellon Fellows will be part of the CAMRA (Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts) community, a Penn-based institute that (i) trains undergraduate and graduate students to use multimedia in their research, (ii) mounts multimedia undergraduate and graduate courses that graduate students help to conceptualize, organize, and teach, (iii) collaborates with other units across campus to produce multimedia research, and (iv) organizes an annual academic conference (the Screening Scholarship Media Festival) that attracts hundreds of graduate students and faculty from all around the world. Learn more at www.camrapenn.org. CAMRA Fellows Director: Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. Graduate Fellows: Melissa Skolnick-Noguera & Arlene Fernández |
You can find the CAMRA Mellon Fellowship application here.
Applications were due May 15, 2020. We are no longer accepting applications, but check back next year.
If you have questions about the program, please contact camrapenn@gmail.com. If you have questions about the application process or an application you have already submitted, please contact Pat Ravenell, the Administrative Coordinator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at ravenell@upenn.edu.
Applications were due May 15, 2020. We are no longer accepting applications, but check back next year.
If you have questions about the program, please contact camrapenn@gmail.com. If you have questions about the application process or an application you have already submitted, please contact Pat Ravenell, the Administrative Coordinator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at ravenell@upenn.edu.