"I am particularly grateful that an award exists to further the study of ethical and religious values throughout the academy. These studies are increasingly important, but are often overlooked in the most lucrative grant competitions."

- E. B., 2008 Newcombe Fellow

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation funds a major program of graduate fellowships in the humanities and social sciences. From the Newcombe Fellowships' origin in 1981, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has handled the selection process and all administration for this program.

The 1,038 Newcombe Fellows selected since the program's inception have represented over 70 American universities. These young scholars' dissertations have added knowledge in their disciplines and have addressed issues of contemporary significance. History, literature, religion, philosophy and anthropology have been the most-represented fields of study. The Newcombe Fellows have achieved a high rate of degree completion and a fine record of academic employment at nearly four hundred universities and colleges in the USA and abroad.

The Foundation's grant to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to conduct the 2009-10 Newcombe Fellowships competition and to administer the program will be $931,217. In 29 years of funding, this program will have received $17,381,000.

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