Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Imagining Democracy Lab, which seeks to increase participation in civic processes through collaboration with community organizations focused on voting rights, access to voting, and citizen education

Imagining Democracy Hub at Emory University

to support a fellowship program that would allow advanced graduate students at Emory to teach at Dillard University

Emory/Dillard Teaching Felllowship Program

to support building a program of study in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Emory NAIS

to support a fellowship program in collaboration with Agnes Scott College, Clark Atlanta University, Dillard University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, for advanced graduate students at Emory to teach at these institutions

Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program 

to continue support for a collaborative initiative to provide object-centered training based on the collections at the High Museum to graduate students in Emory's art history department

Graduate Curatorial Training Renewal

to strengthen the educational role of the collections and programs of the Michael C. Carlos Museum

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

for use by its art museum to enhance the educational role of the collections and programs

To support the development of curricula to strengthen the academic role of the museum's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

to support a planning process for the development of curricula to strengthen the academic role of the Michael C. Carlos Museum

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: OG

to strengthen the educational role of the Michael C. Carlos Museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

to support new modalities of online publication in art history and aesthetics for use by nonsite.org

Nonsite.org

to support a collaborative initiative that provides object-centered training based on the collections at the High Museum to graduate students in the university’s art history department

Graduate Curatorial Training

to support an exploration of the opportunities and challenges associated with creating a shared “virtual reading room” for literary archives

The Virtual Reading Room: Consortia Access to Digitized Literary and Poetry Archives

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

Dissertation Seminars 

to support undergraduate humanities curriculum revision to connect undergraduate students in the humanities to postgraduate career opportunities

Humanities Pathways

Dissertation Seminars

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

Fresh Combinations

for development of programs in the arts and sciences

Institutional Advancement

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

Postdoctoral Program

Emeritus Fellowships 

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities"

Mellon Humanities Professorship

toward cost of purchasing the library collection of the Hartford Seminary

Hartford Seminary Library

in support of the design of digital application and selection programs

Paperless Application Project

to support a fellowship program for art history graduate students focused on object-centered curatorial training in collaboration with the High Museum of Art

to support graduate education program reform

Humanities PhD Interventions

to support the development of the visiting scholars program at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and Social Advocacy

Visiting Scholars Program 

to support the planning of a project that would use computational linguistic tools to enhance the results of metadata harvesting

Metadata Harvesting Tools 

to support the study of Internet search engine applications designed to improve access to scholarly communications

Metadata Harvesting Services

to support a final year of the Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program

Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program

Institutional Advancement - Southern Studies

New Directions Fellowship (Kugle)

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to support the Visiting Scholars Program at the James Weldon Johnson Institute

James Weldon Johnson Institute

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Yanna Yannakakis

New Directions Fellowship (Yannakakis)

to support faculty and programmatic renewal in the humanities

Fellows for Humanistic Inquiry

for use by its School of Medicine toward initial costs of developing a Chinese edition of Contraceptive Technology

Contraceptive Technology - Chinese Edition

to support teaching fellowships for advanced graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

to support the development of computational linguistic techniques for retrieving information from large, disparate aggregations of scholarly materials

Computational Linguistics/Semantic Clustering

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Contending with Conflict 

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

in support of the Middle East Program at the Carter Center

Carter Center - Middle East Program

toward costs of a project, in cooperation  with Scholars Press, to test the feasibility of electronic journals in the field of religious studies

Electronic Journals in Religious Studies 

to support renewal of the Visiting Scholars Program at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies

Johnson Institute Visiting Scholars Program

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

to support initiatives to restructure library operations and develop essential infrastructure for digital scholarship

Library Support for Digital Scholarship 

to support a visiting scholars program in the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies

to support the creation of portal services designed to assist scholars in identifying, locating, and retrieving research materials for the study of the American South

Scholarly Portal for Southern Studies 

to provide tie-off support for a program of visiting scholars and dissertation-completing graduate students at the James Weldon Johnson Institute

James Weldon Johnson Institute (Tie-Off)

to support the development of databases that identify slaves and others involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

People of the Atlantic Slave Trade

to support an inter-institutional network of Atlanta-based researchers to develop and promote humanities-forward, justice-oriented approaches to artificial intelligence

The Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI (AIAI) Network

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" 