Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an initiative promoting engaged citizenship in the humanistic disciplines

Revitalizing William and Mary's Commitment to Citizen Scholars

to support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career

New President

for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

Institute of Early American History and Culture

endowment for the Institute of Early American History and Culture

to support teaching, scholarship, and community engagement around the legacies of slavery, freedom, segregation, racism, and reconciliation in the college’s history

Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-interpret the Past

to support planning initiatives for a program of curricular reform

Curriculum Planning

to support environmental studies and the use of geographic information systems

Environmental Studies

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

Dissertation Seminars

to establish an endowment in support of a new program of Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowships, in honor of W. Taylor Reveley, III on the occasion of his retirement from the Chairmanship of the Board of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

W. Taylor Reveley, III Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowships

to support the expansion of undergraduate research opportunities for students from first-generation, disadvantaged, and underrepresented minority backgrounds

Liberal Education and Inclusive Excellence

to support the implementation of a new liberal arts curriculum

Liberal Arts General Education Curriculum Implementation

to support curricular revision and enhancement

Undergraduate Research

to support the environmental studies program

to support existing environmental studies programs

New President - Discretionary Fund

to support a program for undergraduate research in global studies

Undergraduate Research in Global Studies

to support curricular and faculty renewal

Bridged Retirements: A Strategy for Perpetual Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the Humanities

to endow The William G. Bowen Distinguished Professorship and The William G. and Mary Ellen Bowen Research Scholarships

The William G. Bowen Distinguished Professorship and The William G. and Mary Ellen Bowen Research Scholarships

to support the William G. Bowen Colloquium on College and University Presidential Leadership

William G. Bowen Colloquium on College and University Presidential Leadership

support of an edition of the works of William James

William James Works

toward costs of archiving the papers of William Vickery

Papers of William S. Vickery 

to support two editorial projects of The Correspondence of William James

William James Correspondence

in support of editorial costs of The Correspondence of William James project

to support the Mary Patterson McPherson Endowed Fund for Innovation in the Humanities

Mary Patterson McPherson Endowed Fund for Innovation in the Humanities

to support the organization and archival disposition of the papers of William O. Baker, and selected publication of his work

William O. Baker Papers

for use by four colleges--Carleton, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, and Williams-in support of the Research Scholar Program for Minority Students

Four College Summer Minority Program

toward costs of a review, in collaboration with Union College, of off-campus study programs and an exploration of cost-effective ways to cooperate in providing high quality foreign-study opportunities to students

Off-Campus Study

to support a new collaborative study-abroad program in cooperation with Union College

Joint Off-Campus Study Programs 

to support the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education

Economics of Higher Education

to support further development of the Mary Miss archives, and training in the methods of the City as Living Laboratory

CALL Platform Project - Phase II

Faculty Support

to help the faculty and administration encourage women's growing career aspirations

Women's Education and Career Program

to enhance the educational role of the museum's collections and programs, within a selective program to assist college and university art museums

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support a research incubator for The 1856 Project, an initiative dedicated to investigating the legacy of slavery at the University of Maryland and engaging in reparative archives work

The 1856 Project

toward costs of humanities summer institutes for fine-arts teachers in Maryland high schools

Summer Institutes

to support the William G. Bowen Endowment for Technology and Scholarship, and to support the new position of director of technology and scholarship and related expenses

William G. Bowen Endowment for Technology and Scholarship

to support an exchange between the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship programs at Williams College and the University of Cape Town

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Exchange Program

to support revitalization of the college’s general education curriculum

Revitalization of the General Education Curriculum

in support of the Research Scholar Program for Minority Students at four colleges

to support the new president’s efforts to initiate collaborative projects between the college and Williamstown

Town-Gown Projects

to continue support for the William G. Bowen Colloquium on Higher Education Leadership

William G. Bowen Colloquium on Higher Education Leadership - Phase II

to support the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

to strengthen curricular offerings and to assist faculty development

Appalachian College Program

to support scalable development of digital infrastructure and tools for Islamicate digital humanities

Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts: Phase II

to support initiatives to diversify academic leadership, in partnership with Morgan State University and the University of Maryland at College Park

Breaking the M.O.L.D. (Maryland Opportunities for Leadership Development) for Arts and Humanities Faculty

to support the inter-campus celebration of artist and educator Ben Jones

Celebration of Ben Jones

matching endowment for a Fund for Faculty and Curriculum Renewal in the arts and sciences

to continue support for the development of optical character recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts

Bridge Funding for Optical Character Recognition of Arabic Texts

in support of research on the economics of education

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" 