Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

in support of the project "Ethnic Los Angeles"

Immigrant Research - Ethnic Los Angeles 

to support the Million Dollar Hoods project, which seeks to archive historical documents, oral histories, and ephemera in order to chronicle the many impacts of policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

Million Dollar Hoods-Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration

to support the California Medieval History Seminar

California Medieval History Seminar 

to support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in Los Angeles’ Westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its diverse immigrant communities

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Histories in Westlake

to support collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to provide object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education

to embed the urban humanities program into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula in a sustainable way and develop a new emphasis on urbanism in Los Angeles and Mexico City

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

for use by its Graduate School of Education for a study  of changes in university organization in Europe

University Organization - Europe

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Disputation:Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University"

Sawyer Seminars - Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University

to support two project coordinators for the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

Center for the Art of Performance - Project Coordinators

to support student internships and attendance at the annual meetings of the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation

Conservation Training Program [ANAGPIC]

to support an initiative at the intellectual and institutional intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities

to support a pilot series of workshops and internships administered by the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials aimed at exposing diverse communities of students to the conservation profession

Conservation Diversity Fellowships

to support a three-dimensional, virtual reality computer model of the Roman Forum

Virtual Reality - History of Architecture

for use by its Graduate School of Management toward costs of research and publication comparing practices and methods of U.S. and Japanese business and industry

Graduate School of Management - Japanese Business

to support a summer program for undergraduate students at historically black colleges and universities

Summer Humanities Institute

to support a summer humanities program for undergraduate students at historically black colleges and universities

Summer Humanities Institute II

to support research at the Center for Education Policy and Evaluation

Center on Education Policy and Evaluation 

in support of Sawyer Seminars on historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures

to support the creation and study of threedimensional, virtual reality computer models of buildings and monuments in ancient Rome

Virtual Reality - History of Architecture Part II

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

Sawyer Seminars - The Ethics of the Neighbor 

to renew support for the development of innovative humanities curriculum, including the development of a social justice curriculum

EPIC II: Social Justice Curriculum

to support the Department of Gender Studies

Program Support

to support the Department of African American Studies

to support the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies

to support further development of scholarly resources documenting the material and intellectual culture of Carolingian monastic society

Planning Virtual Libraries of the St. Gall Monasteries

to support the development of electronic resources in medieval studies

Creating Virtual Libraries of the St. Gall Monasteries

to support the development of the Radical Librarianship Institute and an accompanying community press

Radical Librarianship Institute

to support a global comparative study of race and disciplinary racialization

Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses

to support inquiries into the conditions and possibilities of emancipatory housing and land use through collaboration between movement-based scholars and their surrounding community

Housing The Third Reconstruction

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Katherine Marino

New Directions Fellowship (Marino)

to support the Asian American Studies Department

to support a final grant to embed the urban humanities program permanently into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula

to support the evaluation of open source virtual world software platforms for use in advancing humanistic research

Exploring the Use of Virtual World Technologies to Advance Humanistic Research

to support research on factors affecting minority high school students’ decisions to attend college and on the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions decisions

Minority Students' College Decisions - Allen

for use by its Division of Humanities in support of a program of postdoctoral fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

for use by the Graduate School of Education to support the initial phase of a study of innovating universities

Innovating Universities

general support of the Black Law Journal, a publication of its School of Law

Black Law Journal

in support of the design of digital application and selection programs

Paperless Application Project

for use by the Department of Library Information Studies of the Graduate School of Education and Information, toward costs of a study of research library staffing patterns in Eastern Europe

EEP - Library Staffing Patterns

to support the digitization of primary source documents from ancient near eastern civilizations for the purposes of preservation and scholarly access

Digital Cuneiform Library 

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

Dissertation Seminars

to facilitate increased use by qualified scholars of its William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Library Support

to support the development of centralized mechanisms for more effective pedagogy in the humanities

EPIC Program

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

Dissertation Seminars 

to support the planning of an initiative for the textual analysis of East Asian literature

East Asian Studies Macroscope

in support of its program in Middle Eastern Studies

Middle Eastern Studies

to support research and training programs in the demography of Central America

Central American Demography

to support the development of a large-scale virtual reality reconstruction of a medieval monastery as specified by the architectural plan of St. Gall

St. Gall Virtual Reality Model

for use by the Higher Education Research Institute to assess the accomplishments of the National Hispanic Scholars Awards Program

Hispanic Scholar Awards

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" 