Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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 a project on transformation in philosophy at South African universities

Rhodes-Wits Transforming Philosophy

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 support strengthening the university’s research culture through the engagement of senior research scholars

Senior Research Scholars 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

to support the Women’s Academic Solidarity Association and its research program

Women's Academic Solidarity Association

to support the Women’s Academic Solidarity Association

to support the planning of a jazz heritage studies and archive development program

Jazz Heritage Studies & Archive Development

to support cataloging and digitization in the International Library of African Music

International Library of African Music

Accelerated Development for Academic Staff

African Art Music Artist-in-Residence

to support a research project on urban connections in African popular imaginaries

Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries

to support a planning workshop with international collaborators to investigate new philosophical frameworks for understanding social solidarity and the development of equitable societies

Cultures of Social Solidarity and the Public Good

to support a research and development program related to scholarship in African art

Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa (PROSPA)

to support a merger office to facilitate the incorporation of the East London campus of Rhodes University into The University of Fort Hare

Merger Office

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

Rhodes Scholars 

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 

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

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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

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" 