Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

New President

to support faculty and curricular development

Faculty Development

Faculty Support

Environmental Studies

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Student Labor Program 

Faculty Career Enhancement 

to support planning activities that will address the needs for faculty career enhancement

to support a program designed to increase undergraduate women students' understanding of alternative career opportunities

Women's Job Opportunity Program

to support an interdisciplinary center focusing on the social, cultural, and economic changes in the Mid-South region

Senior President: Interdisciplinary Center

to support planning for the integration of public and digital arts into the curriculum

Public and Digital Arts

to support the development of a pilot project for a digital archive of the civil rights era

Civil Rights Digital Archives

to support the development of an institute that translates arts and humanities research, teaching, and creative expression into social action

Institute for Race and Social Transformation

to support faculty and curricular initiatives at the Memphis Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

Supporting Academic Innovation in a Liberal Arts Setting

to support a partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum to co-create curriculum and programming designed to extend the reach of the liberal arts into the Memphis community

Public Liberal Arts in the 21st Century: Partnership and Scholarship in Memphis

to support a curricular and community-based initiative, in collaboration with health care providers, that focuses on the ways in which the humanities can address health disparities related to race and income in the city of Memphis

Building a Culture of Health Equity, Human Flourishing and Well-Being through the Public Humanities

to support multi-institutional collaboration

Enhancing the Student Experience and Examining Common Costs:  A Pilot Collaboration across Three Campuses (with Rhodes College and The University of the South)

to support a study of the college preparation of Rhodes scholars since World War II

Rhodes Scholars 

to support a project on transformation in philosophy at South African universities

Rhodes-Wits Transforming Philosophy

to support the establishment of a university archive and research on the history of the university

History and Archives of Rhodes University

to support master's and doctoral students who are conducting research into institutional culture at the university

Research on Equity and Institutional Culture at Rhodes University

to support collaborative initiatives among Centre and Rhodes Colleges and Sewanee: The University of the South

Strengthening Our Institutions

to support an artists-in-residence initiative in creative writing at the Institute for the Study of English in Africa

Writers-in-Residence Program

to support the consolidation and expansion of a creative writing program

Writers/Scholars-in-Residence Programme 

to support residency programs for visiting writers and scholars

Writers in Residence and Scholars in Residence Program

to provide graduate fellowships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to prepare them for academic careers

Graduate Fellowships

to support a supra-institutional collaborative program to develop an inclusive Humanities professoriate

Inclusive Professoriate

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Humanities Unit

to support leading humanities scholars in an effort to promote research and postgraduate development

Humanities Research

to support programs of ecological research and training

Research Bridges 

to support doctoral studies in the humanities and social sciences

Doctoral Fellowships

to support honors fellowships in the humanities

Honors Fellowships

to support a visit and study of Canadian and American universities to further the development of higher education and education policy in South Africa

Study Tour

to support honors-year fellowships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to encourage such students to pursue graduate degrees

Honors Program

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

to support an internship program aimed at developing potential academic staff from groups underrepresented in its faculty

Academic Internship Program

to support graduate research on institutional culture and transformation

Higher Education Transformation

to support the establishment of a Postgraduate Studies Centre

Postgraduate Studies Centre

Academic Staff Development

to support discretionary initiatives of the vice-chancellor

Vice-Chancellor Support

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

African Plants Initiative

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

to support a master’s and doctoral fellowship program

Graduate Fellowship Program

to support the creation of a digital database of images and information on African plants

to support further development of research and graduate education focus areas in the humanities

Humanities Research - Phase II

to support digitization of materials at the Cory Library

Cory Library Digitization Project

to support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives

South African Universities Collaboration

to support South African universities to institute seminar series on themes of historical and contemporary scholarly and wider public significance

Southern Epistemologies  Seminar Series

to support a research project on the complex relationship between South Africa's changing media and social environments

Media and Social Belongings

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" 