Welcome to the Harkness Fellows Association Website

The Association

The Harkness Fellows Association and Transatlantic Trust is the alumni association of Harkness Fellowships, an international exchange programme offering fellowships in the USA, which ran from 1925 to 1998. The aims of the association are to keep alive the spirit of the programme, to encourage trans-Atlantic contacts and relationships and, if possible to relaunch a modernised programme in a form appropriate to the 21st century. To this end it runs a programme of lectures, seminars, workshops and other activities, publishes an annual newsletter, the 'Transatlantic Report' and has comissioned a film about the programme, which you can view by clicking on the Harkness Video link.

Membership of the Harkness Fellows Association is open to all interested in trans-Atlantic relationships. The core of our members are former Harkness and Commonwealth Fund Fellows who at some stage in their careers enjoyed the benefit of living, studying and travelling in the United States of America, generously funded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York.

If you wish to join the Harkness Fellows Association or just have general enquires about us or our activities please contact the Association office. The Harkness Fellowship Association contact details are available on the Contact Us page.

The Website

The Harkness Fellows Association website has been designed to achieve four major aims:
• To provide a point of access for general information about the Harkness Fellows Association, its history, and the revival of the Fellowship programme.
• To provide Association members with up-to-date news about the Harkness Fellows Association as well as highlighting upcoming Harkness events and social activities including the annual Harkness Lecture.
• To provide a portal for online enquires and booking of the various Harkness Fellows Association events.
• To provide a simple means for the diverse membership of the Harkness Fellows Assoication to keep in contact with the Association