Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support jazz and poetry programs developed in collaboration with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Rutgers-Newark/NJPAC City Verses Program

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 the integration of prison education across the university’s three schools of arts and sciences

NJ-STEP

to support planning for the integration of prison education across the university's three schools of arts and sciences

to support the expansion of the Humanities Action Lab’s States of Incarceration, a curricular, research, and public humanities project 

States of Incarceration: Inclusive Dialogues and Institutional Diversity

to continue support for the NJ-STEP program, which coordinates prison education courses inside seven out of the ten accessible facilities across NJ and has created a continuum of higher educational services from prison into the community

NJ-STEP - Phase II

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

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

to support the Humanities Action Lab's "Climates of Inequality and the COVID Crisis" initiative

Humanities Action Lab

to support the Honors Living-Learning Community undergraduate research program

Price Humanities Undergraduate Research Scholars

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City"

Sawyer Seminar - Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City

to endow the Clement A. Price Chair in Public History and Humanities

Clement A. Price Endowed Chair in Public History and Humanities

to continue support for the Humanities Action Lab’s nationwide Climates of Inequality and States of Incarceration initiatives, based out of the Rutgers-Newark campus

Public History for a Just Transition:  Pedagogies, Projects, and Partnerships for Rapid Crisis Response and Long-term Reckoning 

to support research, community engagement, and public installations commemorating im/migrant stories

New Jersey Im/migrant Laborers' Monument Project

in support of a study of the implementation in New Jersey of a new system of school finance

School Finance

to support pathways to the humanities for undergraduates through Childhood Studies at the Rutgers-Camden campus, while deepening the field’s engagement with questions of race and normativity

Rethinking Race and Justice Through Childhood Studies

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the quality of the Department of English at the New Brunswick campus, and of literary studies and the humanities at the University

English Department

to support a study of how university presses could increase the sales of scholarly publications directly to consumers

University Press Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Research

New Directions Fellowship (Kelly)

New Directions Fellowship (Cooper)

New Directions Fellowship (Hughes)

New Directions Fellowship (Chism)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Genese Sodikoff

New Directions Fellowship (Sodikoff)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Susanna Schellenberg

New Directions Fellowship (Schellenberg)

for technical assistance to state court judges in the area of school finance

School Finance - CPRE

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions Fellowship recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Hughes)

to support the establishment of an institute for the advanced study of race and social justice

The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ)

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "The Afterlives of Liberation: Antiracist Praxis for the Twenty-First Century"

Sawyer Seminars - The Afterlives of Liberation: Antiracist Praxis for the Twenty-First Century

for a study of and publication on changes in the role of journals of opinion

Journals of Opinion

to support the preservation of the Benny Carter and Benny Goodman collections of audio recordings at the Institute of Jazz Studies

Preserving Jazz Collections 

to strengthen the educational role of the collections and programs of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

for use by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

to support an endowment to strengthen the educational role of collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

to support the strengthening of student and faculty engagement with the museum's collections

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support a planning workshop designed to develop a new research agenda in the field of 20th-century American industrial history

American Industrial History Workshop 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Race, Place, and Space in the Americas: New Questions and Comparative Analysis"

Sawyer Seminars - Race, Place, and Space in America

to support the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Program Support

in support of the National Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities

Computerized Humanities Texts - Inventory of Machine-Readable Text

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Potentialities of Justice: Toward Collective Reparative Futures"

Sawyer Seminars - Potentialities of Justice: Toward Collective Reparative Futures 

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Problems of Historical Interpretation

to support a third and final round of graduate fellowships in the university's strongest humanities programs

Humanities Fellowship Initiatives - Phase III

to support Black Feminism in the Public Sphere

From CFC - Black Feminism in the Public Sphere

in support of the U.S. Center of Documentation for the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae

Mythology Lexicon

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support research, instructional, and related activities in the field of British studies

British Studies

toward costs of compiling an inventory of machine-readable texts in the humanities

Inventory - Machine-Readable Text

for a study of the quality of graduate and professional students in selected fields

Grad Student Quality Study

to support projects measuring the pedagogic effectiveness and costs of using technology to improve undergraduate instruction

Web-Based Courses 

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" 