Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) Phase 2

to support a collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago - Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts

to renew support for the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

Chicago Object Study Initiative - Phase 2

to support the expansion of educational opportunity for incarcerated people, including the only postsecondary college in prison program for women in the state of Illinois

Northwestern Prison Education Program (NPEP) 

to support and strengthen the role of the Kaplan Center for the Humanities in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives to strengthen the role of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities in the University’s instructional and scholarly activities

University Humanities Centers 

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

to support initiatives aimed at building the capacity of the university press and strengthening the role it plays in the African Studies and Performance Studies and Theatre Programs

Publication and Research Collaboratives

to support the expansion of the university’s honors workshop programs

Gateway Program

to support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher education leadership

Academic Leadership Development

to continue support for the Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

Puerto Rico Arts Initiative

to support the Puerto Rico artist development initiative

Puerto Rico Artist Development Initiative

to support the needs of prison education programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Current Grantee Prison Education Programs

for use by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) to administer a fellowship program for minority students to pursue doctoral degrees in the humanities

in support of a program of postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

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

Dissertation Seminars

for use by its Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research in support of a study of the causes and consequences of the growth of commercial activity on the part of nonprofit organizations

Nonprofit Organizations

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

Fresh Combinations

in support of a seminar for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

for use by its Department of Biological Sciences in support of research in reproductive biology

Reproductive Biology

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

to support activities to strengthen the interdisciplinary reach of the field of dance studies and the work of young dance scholars

Dance Studies 

to support staff training and consultation in Dunhuang and the Shannxi province in China on techniques to be used in the three-dimensional, digital capture of sculptural objects

Digital Sculpture 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

to support the photography, digital image processing, and cataloging of the cave art in Dunhuang, China

Chinese Cave Art

to develop plans for a digital archive of cave art in Dunhuang, China, and associated manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures now held by libraries and museums in many countries

toward costs of a series of studies on competition and coexistence of nonprofit and for-profit enterprises

Commercialization of Nonprofits

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 young research faculty members and postdoctoral scientists in the reproductive sciences

Reproductive Biology [Schwartz]

to support a design lab for designers, scholars, and activists informed by disability justice principles and arts and humanities methodologies with the goal of integrating Disability Studies and professional design fields

Labs for Liberation

for use by the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research toward costs of a volume examining test score differences between Blacks and whites

Test Score Differences  

in support of the initial cost of data collection for the Foundation's "College and Beyond" research project

College and Beyond

in support of seminars which treat the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Seminars - Comparative Cultures 

to assist its College of Arts and Sciences to implement curricular revisions and distribution requirements in a new general education program

General Education Program

Emeritus Fellowships [Paden]

Emeritus Fellowships [Garrison]

Emeritus Fellowships [Lipking]

to support a workshop to explore how various annotation systems could be made interoperable

Annotation Systems Workshop 

Emeritus Fellowship [Monter]

Emeritus Fellowships [Packer]

to support the digital photography, image processing, and cataloging of sculpture in the Suilu’an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China

Shuilu'an Temple Digitization 

to support an evaluation of its honors workshop programs

Gateway Program II

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment

to support the completion of the digital photography, image processing, and cataloging of the cave art in Dunhuang, China, as part of the development of the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive

Chinese Cave Art 

to support the Dunhuang Research Academy’s efforts to use the digital photography of Dunhuang cave art to develop a virtual cave tour

Visitor Education Center 

to support the planning of a project in which the Dunhuang Research Academy would use coverage and Quick-Time Virtual Reality photography to create a virtual cave experience in a new visitor education center

Visitor Education Center

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Defoe

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Hannah Feldman

New Directions Fellowship (Feldman)

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" 