Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of the Chicago Visual Library

Chicago Visual Library

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Chicago Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of The University of Chicago Press

to renew support for the Chicago Object Study Initiative, a collaboration between the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago to strengthen object-based training for art history graduate students

Chicago Object Study Initiative - Phase 2

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of its text/fiche program

Text/Fiche Program

to support the development of models of collaboration among faculty, graduate students, and archivists for the processing of collections in Chicago-area archives

Processing Chicago Area Archives 

to support the creation of a community critics’ project that would broaden and deepen the engaged reception of works by Black and brown artists in the Chicago area

The Chicago Critics' Table

to support Chicago-based Black dance companies and strengthen their financial and operational capacity, ensuring the long-term survival of their work

The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project

to support surveys of archival collections in the Chicago area by faculty and doctoral students in preparation for the cataloging of these collections

Surveys of Archival Collections 

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role university humanities centers play in the instructional and scholarly activities of their home institutions

University Humanities Centers

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role that the Franke Institute for the Humanities plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

to enhance the educational role of the museum's collections and programs, within a selective program to assist college and university art museums

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Spendable

to support planning for a survey by the BMRC of primary source materials in the Chicago area related to African-American culture

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Survey Development 

to support a survey by the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) of primary source materials in the Chicago area related to the study of African-American culture

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Survey Initiative

to support a program of professional growth and development for faculty members teaching at the undergraduate level in institutions of higher education

University-College Regional Program

toward maintaining and strengthening the intellectual excellence of the University

Universities Program

to support the development of digital distribution centers for university presses

Print on Demand  

to support a meeting of academic coordinators of the Mellon College and University Art Museum program

Academic Coordinators Meeting

for editorial costs of the Dictionary of Mythologies

Dictionary of Mythologies

for a summer program of Arabic language instruction, in cooperation with Northwestern University

Middle Eastern Studies - Arabic Summer Instruction

to support collectively developed projects in disciplinary innovation and cross-institutional collaboration by a consortium of university humanities centers

Disciplinary Innovation

in support of asummer program of intensive language instruction in Arabic, to be conducted jointly with Northwestern University

to support research on non-quantitative issues in the study of climate change and its ramifications

Failure of the Numerical

to strengthen the academic role of the Smart Museum of Art's collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Endowment

Crerar Library

for use by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art to strengthen the educational role of its collections and programs

toward costs of strengthening the electronic publishing of scholarly journals

Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Journals

to establish a permanent endowment to strengthen the educational role of the museum’s collections and programs

College and University Art Museum Program Phase I: Endowment

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support the preservation, publication, and distribution of the Persepolis Fortification Archive

Preservation of the Persepolis Fortification Archive

to support the Black Metropolis Research Consortium in its efforts to enhance the online portal into its collections database and to grow its community of donors of Black history material

Access to an Enhancement of the Collections of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium

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

Preservation of the Persepolis Fortification Archive - Part II

to support research and teaching on topics related to race and ethnicity at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

to support a renewal of the Residential Fellowships for Arts Practice & Scholarship at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

Program of Collaborative Fellowships for Arts Practice and Scholarship – Phase III

to support the recruitment of new faculty in the humanities for the university's extant center in Beijing and its new center to be established in New Delhi

Faculty Recruitment

toward costs of developing a technical plan to extend the University's Library Data Management System to research libraries in the Midwest Library Network

Midwest Library Network

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

Sawyer Seminars - Circulation of Poetry/Medieval to Modern in the Islamic World

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

Sawyer Seminars - The Problem of Non-Discursive Thought from Goethe to Wittgenstein

toward costs of programs of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

toward costs of publication by its Press of The Founders' Constitution

Founders Constitution

in support of a study of the effects of Catholic schooling on the educational attainments of minority and white students and on their subsequent earnings

Catholic School Effectiveness 

for use by its Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies for a study of the economic and academic value of the General Educational Development examination

GED Evaluation

to establish a center focused upon problems of literacy in humanistic fields of learning

Literacy Program

to improve the effectiveness of graduate education in selected departments of the humanities and related social sciences

Graduate Education

toward cost of surveying the climate control and storage needs of the Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute Renovation

for The Pritzker School of Medicine in support of its Center for Clinical Medical Ethics

Clinical Medical Ethics

to support the continued development of the BiblioVault project

BiblioVault 

in support of seminars which treat the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Seminars - Comparative Cultures

toward costs of a survey of adult sexual behavior

Adult Sexual Behavior Survey

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" 