Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the production of an electronic edition of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy

Consolation of Philosophy

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

Regional Program

to support the completion of project activities related to the digital restoration and representation of the Herculaneum papyri

Digital Restoration of the Herculaneum Papyri

to support the digital restoration and representation of the Herculaneum papyri

to support the development of an interdisciplinary studio and legal clinic to provide practical solutions to communities facing legal challenges related to monuments

Monuments Workshop at UK

to support planning for the digitization of the Herculaneum papyri

Planning for the Digitization of the Herculaneum Papyri

toward costs of completing the Electronic Beowulf project

Electronic Beowulf

to support the development of tools to help humanities editors prepare image-based electronic editions

Electronic Editions 

for use by its Appalachian Center in providing professional growth opportunities for faculty members from nearby colleges

Appalachian College Program

Faculty Scholars Program

for use by its Appalachian Center for the Appalachian College Program

toward costs of an exchange program with the Agricultural University of Krakow

Eastern European Program - Agricultural University of Krakow Exchange Program

to enable a selected number of faculty members from four-year colleges within the region to spend a semester at the University drawing upon its scholarly resources

University-College Faculty Program

to support a project to deepen the ongoing conversation in Transgender Studies at and beyond the University of Kansas

Trans Studies at the Commons

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 cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

to support planning for cooperatives that would support the digital publication of documentary and scholarly editions

Planning for Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

Small Opera Program

to support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions of the university

Arts on Campus

to support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open access basis

Humanities Open Book

for a study of the land-use history of major ecological research sites

History/Ecology Program

to support a project on the ethics and politics of storytelling with local communities, building on projects that center suppressed narratives

Stories for All

for research on the land-use history of major ecological research sites

Ecological History

to provide opportunities for the professional growth of faculty members from neighboring colleges and universities

toward costs of ecological research and training

Ecological Research and Training

to support computational approaches and data visualizations for analysis of Black American novels

The Black Literature Network

to support production and dissemination of a documentary film about the Iⁿ‘zhúje Waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project

Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe/Sacred Red Rock Project Documentary

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

Digitization - African Plants Initiative

to support the strengthening of its capacity to conduct demographic research and training

Demography Center

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

African Plants Initiative

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Chronic Conditions: Knowing, Seeing & Healing the Body in Global Africa"

Sawyer Seminar: Chronic Conditions: Knowing, Seeing & Healing the Body in Global Africa

to support a research and capacity-development project between the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neoliberalism, Gender and Curriculum in Transformation 

to support collaboration between the campus art museum and library

Campus Library and Museum Collaboration

to continue support for the Integrated Arts Research Initiative

Integrated Arts Research Initiative Phase 2

to provide graduate fellowships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to prepare them for academic careers

Graduate Fellowships 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

to support the Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe project

Iⁿ ‘zhúje ‘waxóbe 

to support academic staff development in the humanities and social sciences

Academic Staff Development

to support an internship program aimed at developing potential academic staff from groups underrepresented in its faculty

Leadership & Equity Advancement Program 

to support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives

South African Universities Collaboration

to support demographic research and training in South Africa related to HIV/AIDS

Demography - HIV/AIDS Node

Promoting African Scholarship Through Arts

to support a faculty career enhancement component in the Leadership and Equity Advancement Program

Leadership and Equity Advancement Programme 

to support activities for strengthening the organizational culture and student governance in the newly merged institution

Organizational Culture and Student Governance

to support a research and graduate training program in spatial humanities

Humanizing Space: Towards an African Spatial Humanities

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

University of Tartu Library 

to support research relevant to contraceptive development

Reproductive Biology Centers

to support junior investigators and contraceptive research

to support junior investigators in reproductive biology and research relevant to contraceptive development

Reproductive Biology Fellowships - Junior Investigators [Maternal]

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" 