Faculty Life Committee
Nomination Instructions for Mellby Lecturers
Please consider nominating a fellow faculty member for next year's Mellby Lecture Series. The Mellby Lecture Series is named for Carl Mellby who served the college as professor and administrator from 1901-1949. Dr. Mellby's career exemplified the distinctive contribution that liberal arts colleges make to higher education: excellence characterized by comprehensiveness, intellectual rigor in both scholarship and teaching, and a creative concern for interrelationships and communication amongst disciplines. In honoring Carl Mellby with a lecture series in his name, we honor his successors among current faculty by inviting two of them who continue in Mellby’s tradition to reflect upon the significance of their own professional work and developments in their chosen fields.
To nominate someone please submit a letter providing evidence of excellence in professional activity (scholarship and/or artistic activity) and teaching which places the nominee within the intellectual tradition established by Mellby. The letter should thus show that the nominee’s work is characterized by comprehensiveness, intellectual rigor in both scholarship and teaching, and a creative concern for interrelationships and communication across disciplines. In addition, the letter should show that the nominee is well-situated to give an excellent presentation to an audience who may or may not have background in the subject matter addressed.
The letter of nomination should be at least one page and no more than two pages in length. You may nominate someone collectively, with everyone in the group signing the letter of nomination, or instead have several colleagues write separate letters supporting a nomination. Please send all nominations to the Office of the Dean of the Colllege. All nominations must be received by April 20th, yearly.
Mellby Lecturers for 2012-13
- Fall Term: Jeanine Grenberg, Philosophy, October 9, 2012
- Spring Term: Dan Dressen, Music, April 22, 2013
To view a speaker history of past Mellby Lectures, please go to Mellby History.
