• Pico Iyer

    Pico Iyer, Fall 2024

    The award-winning essayist and novelist will join the Montgomery Fellows Program this fall.

  • George Takei

    George Takei, Spring 2024

    George Takei is a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek.

  • Hortense Spillers

    Hortense Spillers, Fall 2023

    Hortense Spillers (Fall 2023) is a noted cultural and literary critic whose academic work over the past four decades broke new ground in amplifying the lives and voices of Black women.
Louise Erdrich '76 sits on a couch at Dartmouth's Montgomery House

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Formally designated lifelong "Montgomery Fellows," many names trigger instant recognition. Here you can see all Fellows alphabetically or search for an individual by name.

Charles Musiba and students

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Over the past four decades, the Montgomery Endowment has hosted more than 230 distinguished fellows. Many of them have come back a second or even a third time.

Salima Ikram

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The Montgomery Fellows Program has reached out across the disciplines and beyond academic life, installing on campus playwrights and film directors, novelists, musicians scientists, politicians, and journalists.