Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support research focusing on the use of racial property restrictions in Iowa's metropolitan counties, their impacts, and their implications for racial equity today

Dividing the City: Race Restrictions and the Architecture of Segregation in the Midwest

to enable selected faculty members from liberal arts colleges in the region to participate in study, research, and curricular planning with members of the University's faculty

University-College Regional Program

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

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging"

Sawyer Seminar: Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging

to support collections research towards African art scholarship and repatriation work

Tracing the History of the UI Stanley Museum of Art's African and Indigenous Collections

toward the costs of book-conservation apprenticeships and training workshops

Conservation Training Program

in support of book-conservation apprenticeships and training workshops for experienced book conservators

Book-Conservation Training

in support of the Emerging Free Market Economy Program

EEP - Czech Business Service

toward costs of providing consulting services to small manufacturing and service businesses in Czechoslovakia

to support continuation of the Emerging Free Market Economy Program

Emerging Free Market Economy Program

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Cultural and Textual Exchanges"

Sawyer Seminar: "Cultural and Textual Exchanges"

to support doctoral reinvention efforts centered on expanded training, public humanities opportunities, and the creation of an interdisciplinary PhD

Humanities for the Public Good – Doctoral Reinvention

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Racial Reckoning and Social Justice through Comics"

Sawyer Seminar: Racial Reckoning and Social Justice through Comics

Emeritus Fellowships 

Reproductive Biology

for use by the Emerging Free Market Economy Program

EEP - EFME Program

Emeritus Fellowships [Addis]

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Story in Theory: Approaches to Narrative Analysis

to support a series of scholarly meetings surrounding the study and conservation of Jackson Pollock's Mural owned by the University of Iowa Art Museum

Pollock Mural Conservation Meetings

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

University Press Program

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

to support the Women’s and Gender Studies Program

Program Support

for completion of a project with the University of Warsaw to establish an MBA program

Eastern European Program - University of Warsaw MBA Program

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

to support a final continuation to institutionalize dissertation completion fellowships in Latino/a studies at six university centers

Inter-University Program for Latino Research

to support institutes on governance for presidents of public colleges and universities

Public University Governance 

to support the integration of humanities-based critical race analysis into undergraduate curricula, faculty scholarship, and collaborative university-community projects

US Racialization and the Law

to renew support for dissertation completion fellowships in Latino studies centers at four universities

to support a preliminary survey of the role of scholarly publishing in the tenure process in selected research institutions

Future of Scholarly Publishing

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Geographies of Justice"

Sawyer Seminar: "Geographies of Justice"

to support classical music presentations at the Krannert Center for the Perfoming Arts and collaborative work with the University Musical Society and Cal Perfomances

Classical Music Presenting 

to support further development of the Extensible Catalog software for use by large library consortia

Ensuring the Scalability and Interoperability of eXensible Catalog's Metadata Services 

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 Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research

Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research

to support the assessment of the papers of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition

Assessment of the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Rainbow PUSH Coalition Papers

toward costs of a library partnership with the University of Tartu in Estonia

University of Tartu Library 

to support the creation of a fellowship program for threatened scholars from Latin America based out of the university’s Latin American and Latino Studies Program, as part of a network within the Crossing Latinidades consortium at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Scholars Under Threat in the Americas

to support a project examining the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in 19th and early 20th century US newspapers

The Virality of Racial Terror in US Newspapers, 1863-1921

to support research clusters in the biological, environmental, and legal humanities

Emerging Areas of the Humanities Fellowship Program

to support the retrospective conversion and cataloging of the collections in the University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Rare Book Cataloging

for library improvement and establishment of an Internet node at the Economics University of Bratislava

Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia

to support planning for an online portal for the Chicago Collections Consortium of libraries and archives

Chicago Collections Consortium: Chicago Portal Planning

to support emergency funding for University of Houston students adversely affected by Hurricane Harvey

University of Houston Cougar Emergency Fund

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Nikki Usher

New Directions Fellowship: Beyond the Case Study: Toward Analysis of the Local News Crisis at Scale

to support the inaugural Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders’ Forum

Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders' Forum

toward costs of providing assistance to the library of the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw Library

toward expenses of conference on "The Crisis of the University"

"The Crisis of the University"

toward costs of purchasing books and journals for the library of the University of Warsaw

to support an assessment of a collection of manuscripts and rare books owned by the Irish Franciscan Order

Irish Franciscan Archive Assessment 

for library acquisitions and information systems at the Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia

EEP - Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia

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" 