Residential Fellowship Program

Kirk Center Library

A Unique Educational Opportunity

The Kirk Center's Residential Fellows Program affords students and scholars the ideal conditions in which they can conduct important research and writing. Fellows write books, essays, reviews, and theses while staying at Piety Hill for periods ranging from a few months to one year. Frequent in-house seminars formalize an already close and stimulating intellectual environment.

The Residential Fellows Program is organized to accommodate and integrate the varying levels of education and experience, as well as the diverse objectives, of those seeking a Center Fellowship. Those accepted to the Center's program are designated as Senior Fellows, Graduate Fellows, or Junior Fellows. The director of the Fellows program works to help each Fellow secure a professional position or pursue an educational opportunity.

In addition to hosting Fellows from some of America's most distinguished academic institutions, the Kirk Center has also welcomed as Fellows scholars and students from Austria, Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia, and the Czech Republic—giving the Center an important international dimension.

A culture is perennially in need of renewal. A culture does not survive and prosper merely by being taken for granted; active defense is always required, and imaginative growth, too.

Russell Kirk

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News and Events

New Bookman

University BookmanThe new Spring issue of the University Bookman is out and the full contents are posted on our site. The issue is devoted to the art of biography with reviews of new books on Ralph Adams Cram (by Dan McCarthy), Orestes Brownson, conservative luminary Gerhart Niemeyer, and others. Subscribe here.

Apr 2008

Kirk Audio: Two Revolutions

We have posted a 50-minute audio lecture from 1990 with Dr. Kirk speaking on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France and related themes.

Apr 2008

Open Court Backlist Find

Open Court Publishing has found a stock of three Kirk-related books that had been thought out of print. You can order books directly from them by calling 800-815-2280 (or +1-603-924-7209); they do not appear on their website. The books available are Kirk’s essay collections Enemies of the Permanent Things and Beyond the Dreams of Avarice and the essay collection in his honor, The Unbought Grace of Life, edited by James E. Person, Jr.

Apr 2008

Kirk and Buckley on Video

The Kirk Center is pleased to announce that will periodically be posting video clips from our archive on the web site. The first two videos are now available—a 1993 interview with Russell Kirk on the fortieth anniversary of The Conservative Mind, and a 1996 interview with the late William F. Buckley, Jr. on his relationship with Dr. Kirk. Watch for further updates!

Mar 2008

William F. Buckley, RIP

Gerald Russello expresses our condolences on the death of William F. Buckley.

Feb 2008

Lectures by Kirk; Lectures about Kirk

The Olin Online Lecture Library at ISI features several audio lectures by Russell Kirk, as well as several new video and audio lectures about Kirk and his legacy by such scholars as W. Wesley McDonald, Ted McAlister, Michael P. Federici, George H. Nash, Gleaves Whitney, and Allan C. Carlson.

Feb 2008