Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Cultivating Effective Citizens: An Amherst College Public Scholarship Project

Cultivating Effective Citizens: A Public Scholarship Project

to strengthen the academic role of the Mead Art Museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

to support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher education leadership

Academic Leadership Development

to support enhanced scholarly and community access to the college’s Younghee Kim-Wait/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of published works by Indigenous authors from North America

Senior President: Mapping Native Intellectual Networks of the Northeast

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Liberal Arts Colleges

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs

The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges

toward costs of improving foreign language instruction and achieving greater cost-effectiveness

Educational Effectiveness

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support faculty bridge appointments in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences

Bridge Appointments

to develop fresh combinations in teaching and learning in the arts and sciences

Fresh Combinations

New President

to support the appointment of new faculty in anticipation of senior faculty retirements

Faculty Retirement

to support interrelated initiatives to reinforce the ideals of liberal education for students and faculty and to broaden access to educational excellence for disadvantaged public school children in neighboring school districts

bridging funds to help meet humanities faculty needs in the 1980's

1980s Fund

Faculty Career Enhancement 

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to improve the teaching of foreign languages and cultures

Foreign Languages Program

to support a program for faculty-student collaborative research in the humanities and social sciences

Faculty-Student Research

to support a renewal of an Emeritus Fellowship

Emeritus Fellowships [Cheyette]

to support strengthening faculty-student research in the humanities and social sciences

to support additional research and related costs for an Emeritus Fellow

Emeritus Fellowships [Pemberton]

Emeritus Fellowship [Moore]

to endow a postdoctoral fellowship program

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential life

The Academic Community

to design a business plan for the journal Hopscotch: A Cultural Review

Hopscotch: A Cultural Review 

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Laure Katsaros

New Directions Fellowship (Katsaros)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Kiara Vigil

New Directions Fellowship (Vigil)

to establish a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to establish "The .Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used for faculty development

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Edward Melillo

New Directions Fellowship (Melillo)

to support staff training and development initiatives at Folger Shakespeare Library

Training and Professional Development

to support the retrospective conversion of library card catalogs to electronic format at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Cataloging Special Collections [Folger]

to strengthen student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Mead Art Museum

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support the reorganization of services and infrastructure at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform

to support multiyear interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects utilizing the collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Collaborative Research Projects

to endow fellowships for scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Post-Doctoral Fellowships

to support solutions for discovery and access issues in libraries and archives

Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform II

to support the implementation of digital access initiatives at the Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Access Initiative

to support a campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiative that connects academic and residential life

Transforming Residential Liberal Education for a New Population of Students

to support planning at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the development of electronic editions, created by undergraduates, of 500 early modern plays

Folger Digital Folio of Renaissance Drama for the 21st Century - Planning Phase

for a study of the effects of participation in athletics and other extracurricular activities on students at Yale and at Amherst

Campus Life Study [Yale and Amherst]

to support the development of faculty and graduate student research programs, a lecture series, and events for local community college students and faculty at the university's W. E. B. Du Bois Center

W. E. B Du Bois Center

to support the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies program

Program Support

to support general operations related to the Five Colleges consortium

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support cross-institutional curricular collaboration with Babson College and the Olin College of Engineering

The Three College Collaboration

toward costs of collecting data for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" study

College and Beyond

to support a Mellon Seminar in Interpretation

Dissertation Seminars

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 