Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at WUSTL

03/31/2026

Welcome to our 34th Cohort. Read more about them:

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program supports original research projects in the humanities and social sciences.

11/06/2025

07/15/2025

Kudos to Josalynn Smith, a WashU Mellon Mays Alum (‘16) on her film , “Ride or Die,” which played at the Tribeca Film Festival and will kick off the Saint Louis Filmmakers Showcase by Cinema St. Louis Friday, July 18 at the Hi Pointe Theater.

https://www.stlamerican.com/arts-and-entertainment/living-it-arts-and-entertainment/beating-the-odds/

The path to becoming a filmmaker began for Josalynn Smith at around 12 years old. Her grandmother, Elaine Bolden, gave her a special edition DVD of “Titanic.” Through the director’s commentary portion, she was able to hear James Cameron discuss his process. The 1997 blockbuster romance is on....

04/30/2025

Congrats to WashU MMUF alum Kiara Sample! Kiara was awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Formed in 1919, ACLS is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations. As the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, ACLS holds a core belief that knowledge is a public good.

04/22/2025

Check out our 2025 issue!!!

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04/09/2025

Let's welcome our latest cohort:

Five sophomores have been selected for the 33rd cohort of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program. The program is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and seeks to advance humanistic inquiry that broadens the understanding of society. The fellows work with a faculty mentor on a researc...

02/09/2025

Sophomores!! Interested in humanities research? We have extended the deadline for Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship to February. Contact us at [email protected] to talk through the program. Make an appointment with Dean Diallo to get any questions answered. Find the application on our website mellonmays.wustl.edu.

11/24/2024

Another Mellonsgiving in the books…

11/02/2024

Mellon Mays Fellows presented their summer work at the Washington University Undergraduate Research Symposium this past Friday.

10/29/2024

Help us spread the word about the Mellon Mays program at Washington University.

Do you know a sophomore interested in independent inquiry? Do they have an interest in research in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences? Might they be interested in graduate school? The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship might be for them. Join us on Wednesday , November 6 at 7pm to hear more about the program.