This year's Mellen Fellowship Award winners specialize in fields ranging from Black Kentucklans. John Milton's poetry and Qusker families. Geroge C. Wright (Afro Americans Studies). peter Rudnyisky (English), Barry Levy (History) and 11 other young teachers will hold appointments with Harvard departments next year. The fellows will research their course or a Freshman Seminar.

The other fellows for 1983-84 are Barbara Jane Bono (English, Brown University), J.R. Hall (English, Notre Dame), Elizabeth Napier (English, University of Virginia), Keith Morgan (Fine Arts, Brown University), Charles Briggs (Folklore and Mythology, University of Chicago), Michael Jennings (German, University of Virginia), John T. Kneebone (History, University of Virginia), James M. Weiss (History, University of Chicago), Ellen Fitzpatrick (History of American Civilization, Brandeis University), Misia Landau (History of Science, Yale University), and Sima Godfrey (Romance Languages, Cornell University).

Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowships in the Humanities are awarded to Faculty members without tenure from other American Universities, and are selected by a Senior Faculty Selection Committee of five Harvard and MIT professors.