Congratulations to our 2021 Graduate Mellon Fellows!

The Cleveland Humanities Collaborative (CHC) is pleased to announce its 2021 cohort of graduate Mellon Fellows, who will collaborate with faculty mentors from Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) to explore teaching careers in the community college environment.

This year’s CHC Mellon Fellows include:

  • Alison Harber (Anthropology), mentored by Professor Donya Waugh
  • Andrew Petracca (English), mentored by Professor Brian Hall
  • Taylor McClaskie and Madelaine MacQueen (Musicology), mentored by Professor Kira Seaton

Graduate students who complete HUMN 422: Humanities Teaching Careers in Community Colleges are eligible to apply for the competitive Fellows program. Humanities 422 is co-taught by CWRU and Tri-C faculty in the fall of each academic year and introduces participants to the mission of community colleges, their student population, and best practices for teaching and learning in an open access institution. The Fall 2020 offering is co-led by Professor Kim Emmons and Professor Nate Kruse at CWRU, and Professor Derrick Williams and Professor Christine Wolken at Tri-C.

The inaugural cohort of CHC Mellon Fellows completed their fellowships during the Spring 2020 semester, and included:

  • Caleb Beidelman (Theater), mentored by Professor Frederick Perry
  • Kylie Fischer (Art History), mentored by Professor Christine Wolken
  • Maureen Floriano (Anthropology), mentored by Professor Emily Weglian

CWRU graduate students who are interested in the CHC Mellon Fellowship should plan to register for HUMN 422 in Fall 2021; interested students can also contact Professor Nate Kruse (nbk17@case.edu) for more information.

The Cleveland Humanities Collaborative is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, whose mission is to “strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.” The CHC’s programming engages students and faculty from Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga Community College, Lakeland Community College, and Lorain County Community College. For more information, visit chc.case.edu.