Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching endowment for the position of Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library

John Carter Brown Library

to support staff training and development initiatives at John Carter Brown Library

Training and Professional Development at John Carter Brown Library 

to support a faculty project led by Brown University's provost on the future of work and its implications for higher education

The Future of Work and Its Implications for Higher Education

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Cogut Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support postdoctoral fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

to support reorganization at the research library

Reorganization at John Carter Brown Library

toward costs of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities at The John Carter Brown Library


to support the reorganization of services and infrastructure at the John Carter Brown Library

Library Digital Engagement and Curation Program

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Reimaging New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom

to support enhancing the functionality of Brown’s Directory of Research and Researchers

Improving Access to Brown's Online Directory of Research and Researchers

to support the further development of university capacities to generate, publish, and preserve born-digital scholarly works

Infrastructure for Digital Publishing - Phase II

to support emergency relief efforts for University of Puerto Rico students who have been affected by Hurricane Maria

Emergency Support for UPR after Hurricane Maria

to support the translations of 19th-century Latin American literary works

Latin American Translations 

to support improving physical and intellectual stewardship of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology's Native American and Indigenous collections and further their integration in the university's curriculum

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Native and Indigenous Collections

to help meet bridging needs for the advancement of younger faculty members in the humanities in the 1980's

1980s Fund

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Coastal Ecosystems

toward costs of a program of research and training on coastal ecosystems

Coastal Research

to improve educational effectiveness and efficiency through curricular and administrative consolidation

Consolidation Program

for research and training in the demography of developing countries

Demography Center

for use by its Population Studies and Training Center in support of demographic research and training with particular emphasis on South Africa

Migration Studies

Demographic Center

for use in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

to strengthen or revitalize areas of the arts and sciences and to encourage new approaches to graduate education

Fresh Combinations

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured post-doctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Nature: 
Endowment of a professorship in the humanities.

Humanities Professorship

to support postdoctoral fellowships at the Cogut Center for the Humanities

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

to support workshops for graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Graduate Workshops

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

to support research and training programs related to urbanization in developing countries

Urbanization Project 

for use by the Education Alliance to support activities for school district superintendents working with limited-English-proficient populations

Immigrant Education - Superintendents

toward costs of the European Americana project

European Americana Project

for undergraduate research on environmental and natural-resource topics

Student Environmental Research

in support of graduate and undergraduate research experience on environmental resource topics

in support of a project to evaluate the cost effectiveness and changed patterns of use of Renaissance women's writings in electronic form

Renaissance Women Writers

in support of planning activities for improved organization and access to major collections of South Asian manuscript materials in United States libraries

South Asian Manuscripts

to support research and training programs related to urbanization and migration in developing countries

Demography Center [Urbanization]

for use by its Humanitarianism and War project in support of research and training to address key dilemmas in humanitarian assistance

Refugee Policy Research

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Witman

in support of activities to promote institutional learning and change among nongovernmental organizations in the refugee and relief fields

matching endowment for use by its Population Studies and Training Center for graduate training in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Endowment

to be matched two-to-one over five years, to endow postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities at the Cogut Center for the Humanities

Cogut Center Endowment

to support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open access basis



Humanities Open Book

in support of demographic research and training

Demographic Centers Program

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

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

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

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" 