Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to assist the scholarly publication program of Harvard University Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of the Harvard University Press

to support a collaboration between the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Byzantine Studies Research Center at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey

Collaborative Proposal - Harvard and Bogazici University

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the Harvard University Press

to establish an endowment fund at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Culture

Villa I Tatti

to support planning for the digitization of medieval manuscripts at Harvard University and other Boston area repositories

Medieval Manuscript Illumination 

for fellowship and library support at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Culture at .... I Tatti, Florence, Italy

to support activities aimed at strengthening scholarship in art history at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Art History Centers - Villa I Tatti - Phase II

to establish a permanent endowment for the position of senior photograph conservator in the Weissman Preservation Center of the Harvard University Library,  and to support the senior photograph conservator while matching funds are being raised, and to support an assistant photograph conservator, conservation technicians, and conservation consultants

Photograph Conservation - Endowment

for use by Harvard Forest in a program for forest microbiology

Harvard Forest - Forest Microbiology

toward support of The Harvard Guide to African American History

Harvard Guide to African American History

toward costs of completing The Harvard Guide to African American History

The Harvard Guide to African American History

to support a one-year planning process to identify preservation needs of Harvard University’s photograph collections and to develop plans to implement a long-term photograph preservation program

Photographic Preservation Program

to support the role of the Humanities Center of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences plays in the instruction and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Harvard Forest - Ecosystems Research

to continue support for a multidisciplinary program that investigates urban geographies and issues by supporting site-based research projects, interdisciplinary seminars, and digital publications and other scholarly productions

Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative

toward costs of programs of ecological research

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

toward continued support of programs in ecological research for undergraduate minority students

Harvard Forest - Minorities in Ecology

toward costs of a program for minority students in ecological research

in support of programs of ecological research and training

Harvard Forest - Ecological Research & Training

for a study of the land-use history of major ecological research sites

Harvard Forest - Land Use History

toward costs of the Harvard Seminar on Assessment

Assessment Seminar

to establish an Andrew W. Mellon Fund at the Harvard Divinity School

Theological Education

to assist in construction of an addition to the Harvard College Library

Library Construction

to support programs of ecological research and training

Harvard Forest - Ecological Research & Training [Foster]

for use by Harvard Law School in conducting an American Indian Law Symposium

American Indian Law Symposium

in support of Harvard Law School's conference "Touching the Future: Reordering the Issues Forty Years After Brown"

HLS Conference

for use by Harvard College Library to support efforts related to the documentation and preservation of dance

Dance Archive

for use by the Harvard Theatre and Dance Collection to improve its efforts in documenting and preserving dance

Dance Preservation

to continue support for the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art at Harvard Art Museums

Summer Institute in Technical Art History- Phase 2

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 programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training - Harvard Forest - Foster

to provide fellowship funds for the Harvard Medical School in support of selected young teachers and researchers working in the basic medical sciences

Medical Schools Program

to support the continuation of the Summer Institute in Technical Art History

Summer Institute for Technical Studies - Harvard Art Museums

to support a university-wide humanities seminar under the auspices of the Mahindra Humanities Center

Mahindra Humanities Center

to improve the quality and effectiveness of graduate education while reducing time-to-degree and attrition rates in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences

Graduate Education - 10 University Study

toward maintaining and strengthening the intellectual excellence of the University

Universities Program

for a study of procedures to search for and select college and university presidents

Presidential Searches

in support of a teaching and research project on the professional conduct of university professors

Professorial Ethics 

Humanities Seminars

in partial support of a study of central administrative costs at a research university

Central Administration Study

for a study of search and selection procedures for college and university presidents

Presidential Search and Selection

for use by the University Art Museums as matching endowment for research and publication

Art Museum Publication Program

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

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

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" 