Subseries C. Individual fellow files, 1960-2004 (#38.1-132.3, F+D.1, OD.1)

Subseries C, Individual fellow files, 1960-2004 (#38.1-132.3, F+D.1, OD.1), includes application forms, recommendation letters, personal statements, curricula vitae, project proposals, writing samples, colloquia program flyers, clippings, fellows' reviews of their fellowship year, and correspondence. Bunting Institute staff maintained a master file, referred to as "blue dot" files, for each fellow. These files contained a core set of materials, including complete application packets, project proposals, and correspondence. Subsequent materials related to each fellow were added to these files over time, including after the fellow had left the program, such as photographs, slides, audiocassettes, memos from the institute, promotional postcards, articles, book chapters, and exhibition catalogs. The evolution of the Bunting Institute can be seen in the files as the requirements and procedures changed over the years. A "Former Fellows Questionnaire" was distributed to fellows from 1961 and 1986 to analyze and create an Institute profile of the fellows. These questionnaires can be found in many of the files of fellows from those years, and may overlap with questionnaires in Subseries A and Subseries E. Correspondence regarding the administration of the Bunting fellowship can be found here, as well as personal matters shared by the fellows regarding career and family life. The Bunting fellowship applications came as far away as West Africa, India, and Japan.

The fellows represented a cross-section of the sciences and the humanities and their files reflect an array of projects from these disciplines. Documents about these projects can be found in the fellows' files. Bunting fellows' projects have included Marianna Pineda's bronze sculpture, "Aspect of the Oracle: Portentous," which can be found outside the Schlesinger Library (#39.3-39.4), and the experimental documentary film BlindSight by Wendy Snyder MacNeil and Alice Wingwall, one of the Bunting Institute's few joint applications and project (#117.8, 119.4). These records also contain material relating to Mary Joe Frug, a Bunting fellow in 1990-1991, who was murdered during her fellowship year. Included are a memorial eulogy given by her son, Stephen, and correspondence regarding the controversial Harvard Law Revue 'Parody' of Frug's work (#91.2-91.3).

This subseries is organized chronologically by fellowship year and then alphabetically by name. Bunting fellows who were awarded two or more consecutive fellowships are listed under their first fellowship year and the final fellowship end date. Bunting fellows who completed non-consecutive fellowships are listed under their first fellowship year; their second fellowship year is noted. Audiocassettes were removed from the folders, and cataloged separately as noted. The files of Bunting fellows who are known to be deceased are open for research as noted. Not every Bunting fellow is represented in this subseries. Some individual fellows files not present in this subseries may be found in RG IX, Series 2.