Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a study of the effects of the City University of New York’s "open admissions" policy on low-income students and their children

Open Admissions - Second Generation Effects

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

University Humanities Centers

to strengthen its graduate programs and undergraduate teaching in the four-year colleges of the City University

Undergraduate Teaching

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Center for the Humanities plays in the instruction and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives at the Center for the Humanities aimed at strengthening its role in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Center for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the university

to continue support for a humanities teacher training and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York City community colleges

Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative

to sustain the Community Colleges Project to strengthen humanities teaching in the seven community colleges of the City University and in others nearby

Community College Project

to support a research seminar on the public humanities at the Center for the Humanities

Center for the Humanities: Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

to support interdisciplinary models of graduate education that train scholars and practitioners in the public humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education for the Public Good

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia"

Sawyer Seminars: Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences"

Sawyer Seminars - Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences

Humanities Center Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

to support the continuation of the Mellon Seminar in the Humanities for the 2013-2014 academic year

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Christopher Loperena

New Directions Fellowship: Fighting to Stay in Place: Race, Climate, and Geographies of Loss

New Directions Fellowship (Wilder)

to support research and training programs in the field of forced migration

Forced Migration Center

to support ongoing scholarly activities by former New Directions Fellowship recipient Gary Wilder

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Wilder)

for support of a humanities fellows program in collaboration with the senior four-year colleges of the University system

Postdoctoral Fellowships

for support of the University-Urban Schools Task Force Project

Urban Schools Task Force

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race and the Middle East/North Africa"

Sawyer Seminar - Race and the Middle East/North Africa

for support the University-Urban Schools Task Force

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - New Immigrants and American Society

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 provide renewed support for object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Curatorial Training in PhD Program - Phase II

to support a study comparing the outcomes of open admissions at CUNY with national data on the effects of a college education

Open Admissions Study

to support the enhancement of the music bibliography database of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale and to help JSTOR select a cluster of scholarly music journals

Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale

to strengthen the teaching of humanities in community colleges, principally in the CUNY system

to support a study comparing the outcomes of open admission at CUNY with national data on the effects of college education

to support a fund for the recruitment and retention of humanities faculty

Doctoral Faculty Support

to support the strengthening of curatorial training in the PhD program in art history

Curatorial Training in PhD Program

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of major contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Human Rights & State Sovereignty

Emeritus Fellowships 

in support of its Community Colleges Project

to support Social Practice CUNY, a program to build capacity and deepen offerings to social practice artists and faculty across the CUNY system

Social Practice CUNY

to plan an online archive of moving images documenting dance history and performance

Dance Video Archive 

Humanities Programs/Teaching

to support activities associated with academic renewal and innovation in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Academic Enhancement

to continue support for social practice artists and faculty across the CUNY system

to continue support for curatorial training in the PhD program in art history

to enable three senior philosophers to teach at three professional schools

Professional Ethics Courses

Emeritus Fellowships [Erickson]

Emeritus Fellowships [Treitler]

Emeritus Fellowships [Roos]

Emeritus Fellowships [Lawergren]

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" 