Short-Term Fellowships
The Starr Center occasionally invites eminent visitors to Chestertown for short-term residential fellowships that have ranged in length between one and eight weeks. Short-term fellows work on their writing or other projects, and often offer workshops, deliver public lectures, visit classes, and meet informally with students. The annual Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellowship brings to campus an individual engaged in the study or interpretation of African-American history and related fields. The Chestertown Fellowships provide opportunities for informal project-based residencies, lending support to worthy projects and providing Washington College students with a firsthand look at exciting works-in-progress.
Participation in these short-term fellowships is by invitation only; there is no formal application process.
The Center also supports an annual fellowship at the Boston Athenaeum in honor of Washington College’s founding namesake, whose personal library is archived there. The Washington College Fellowship provides a stipend of $1,500 for twenty days of on-site research at the Athenaeum by a candidate proposing to conduct research in the library of George Washington, or working in a germane area. For more information, visit http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/fellowships.html.
Past Fellows:
Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellows
Ralph Eubanks, Spring 2007
Director of Publishing, Library of Congress
Author, Ever is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past
Marlon Saunders, Spring 2005
Professor of Voice, Berklee College of Music
Jazz musician
Composer, Workin’ on a Building: Compositions of Black Life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Chestertown Fellows
Senior Fellows
