Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to provide major renewed support to Freedom Reads as it scales its library installations and expands organizational capacity

Freedom Reads

to support the construction of the North Carolina Freedom Park and Beacon of Freedom

North Carolina Freedom Park

to support organizational capacity building and future-forward imagining

Capacity Building and Future-Forward Imagining

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

Support for Library Freedom Project

to support the Imagining America Leading and Learning Initiative to develop a nationally adoptable set of guidelines for the valuing of publicly engaged scholarship and pedagogy at universities and colleges

Imagining America's Leading and Learning Initiative

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging"

Sawyer Seminar: Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging

to support the Stories of Freedom collaboration with StoryCorps

Stories of Freedom

toward costs of a project on the History of Modern Freedom

Modern Freedom Project

to support academic freedom hubs in different world regions, linked together into a global confederation

Academic Freedom 2035

to support efforts to identify, document, and stabilize Mississippi's Freedom Houses

Mississippi Freedom Houses Project

Freedom to Grow planning grant

to support the development of a plaza, classroom/lab, exhibits, and infrastructure at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park

Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park

to support the establishment of the Institute for Freedom and Community

The Institute for Freedom and Community

to support planning for the development of a set of online scholarly resources related to the theme Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa

Online Scholarly Resource - South African Freedom

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics"

Sawyer Seminars - Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics

to support the documentation of legislative challenges to academic freedom and the promotion of awareness about their effects

Defending Academic Freedom through Public Engagement II

to support the development of a database comprised of "runaway ads" with improved, high quality metadata thus documenting previously unavailable information about the lives and efforts of enslaved individuals to secure their freedom in the antebellum United States

Mellon-Freedom on the Move Partnership

to support the expansion of the Getting Word project and the development of the Digital Archive of Slavery to Freedom at Monticello

Next Generation Getting Word: An Archive of Black Freedom

to continue support for research and communications capacity, including for "Free to Think," a report on documenting attacks on academic freedom


Free to Think: Documenting Attacks on Universities, Scholars & Academic Freedom

to support a study on the future of academic freedom and a public relations campaign to strengthen support for higher education

The Defense of Academic Freedom: A Center and a Campaign

to support completion of the current phase of restoration of the Clinton Church building, leadership and staffing of the center, and programming support for the Interpretive Center and W.E.B. Du Bois Forum

W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World"

Sawyer Seminars - The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

Sawyer Seminar: "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

to support the Afghan Artists Protection Project

Afghan Artists Protection Project

Expansion of AFI’s Crisis Response Model

to support technological, scholarly, pedagogical, and communicative improvements to the annual meeting

Imagining a New Kind of Academic Annual Meeting

to support a project that reimagines tragedy and theater studies from the perspectives of Africa and the Global South

Re-imagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South

to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

to support a database of documents related to fugitives from North American slavery

Freedom on the Move

to support the development of a new core curriculum

Phase II:  Re-imagining the Liberal Arts Experience through Innovation and Integration

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Elizabeth Thornberry

New Directions Fellowship: Imagining African Law: The Politics of Custom in South Africa

to support a bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated women

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound

to support efforts for coalition building for critical race theory among academics and institutions

Defending Academic Freedom through Public Engagement

to support research focusing on the relationship between Black Dance practices, location, and racialized identity

Race, Black Dance, and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Reimaging New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom

to support a project that expands capacity for medium- and long-term support for humanities scholars at risk of persecution

to support the For Freedoms Festival, a national conference and partner convention

For Freedoms Festival 2020

General Operating Support

to support the completion of North Star, a large-scale multidisciplinary art project

Kambui Olujimi and North Star

to support a series of initiatives that use the arts and humanities to engage local communities in understanding the causes of over-incarceration, imagining solutions, and connecting to policy makers

Envisioning Justice

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 continue support for research and communications capacity, including for Free to Think, an annual report that documents attacks on academic freedom

Free to Think 2022-25: Defending Free Inquiry, Empowering Connected Communities

to support development of an online interactive portal, creative place-based activations, and research on the cultural and historical landscape of Freedom Colonies

Out(sider) Preservation

to continue support for AmbitioUS, an initiative to encourage the development of alternative economies that yield greater financial freedom for artists and cultural communities

Alternative Economies

to support completing the second phase of a national project to create a digital archive of scholarly materials related to the theme Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa

Digital Imaging of South Africa

to support efforts to shore up the association's digital infrastructure and to advance intellectual freedom and access to information, diversity fellowship programming, and a COVID-19 relief regranting program

Let Our Legacy Be Justice - Phase II

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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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

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Monuments and Memory

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

Multivocality

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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" 