Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of Minnesota Press

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the University of Minnesota Press

to support the continuation of a Global Issues Honors Consortium in collaboration with University of Minnesota at Morris, Dillard University and Tougaloo College

Honors Program 

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Minnesota Transform: A Just University for Just Futures

to support an expansion of the Atlanta University Center/University of Minnesota honors program

to support collaboration between the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Press in the publication of research in various interdisciplinary fields of study

Publication and Research Collaboratives

to support an interdisciplinary publication program aimed at strengthening the role the university press plays in the scholarly activities of the university

Publication and Research Collaboratives II 

to support an ever-growing, interactive digital archive and remapping of Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte placenames in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and beyond

Remapping the Očhéti Šakówiŋ Oyáte: Orature as Deep Mapping

for continued development of an MBA program at the Warsaw School of Economics

EEP - MBA Program - Warsaw School of Economics 

toward costs of developing an MBA program at the Warsaw School of Economics

EEP - Business Training

to support exchanges of graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and related social sciences, in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape

Humanities Center Exchange Program

to support exchanges of graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and related social sciences  in collaboration with the University of the Western Cape

Faculty & Graduate Student Exchange Program  

to support the development of a new model for collaboration between its libraries and College of Liberal Arts to provide a cost-effective infrastructure for research support

New Models of Academic Support

to support the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Program Support

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "The Politics of Land"

Sawyer Seminar: The Politics of Land

to support the creation of a Consortium for the Study of the Pre-Modern World

Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World

to support an Environmental Justice, Place and Community project examined through the lens of Indigenous studies


A Humanities-Led Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative

to continue support for the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World

Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World - Phase II

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Comparative History of the Early Modern World

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives On the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement"

Sawyer Seminars - Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives On the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement

for use by the Department of Geology in support of a study of climatic change

Climatic Change

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research

for a paleoecological study of the influence of acid deposition upon peatlands

Paleoecology Project

toward costs of programs of ecological research for minority students

Minorities in Ecology

for a study of specifications for library binding adhesives

Library Binding

support of the work of the Office for Advanced Drama Research in assisting new playwrights

Advanced Drama Research

for use by its Medical School in support of research in reproductive biology

Reproductive Biology

for a program of ecological research, and to involve faculty members and students from liberal-arts colleges in that program

Ecological Research

toward costs of a program of sustained ecological research

Long-Term Ecological Research

toward continued support of programs in ecological research for undergraduate minority students

to support the development of the Manifold platform for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

Manifold Scholarship: Phase III

toward costs of business training programs in Eastern Europe

EEP - Business/Economics Training

to continue support of training in the ecological sciences for undergraduate students committed to increasing the participation from groups traditionally underrepresented in the ecological sciences

to support development of infrastructure for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

Developing the Iterative Scholarly Monograph

to support capacity and management of the Mexican American Art Since 1848 project, an open-source portal that compiles digital collections of Mexican American visual art

Mexican American Art Since 1848 

to support a planning conference on globalization and the humanities by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change

Globalization and the Humanities

to support programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training [Craine]

Ecological Research and Training [McLauchlan]

to support exchanges of graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and related social sciences

Faculty & Graduate Student Exchange Program 

to support planning for the development of a set of online scholarly resources related to the theme Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa

Online Scholarly Resource - South African Freedom

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Making the Mississippi:  Formulating New Water Narratives for the 21st Century and Beyond"

Sawyer Seminars - Making the Mississippi

to support the development of infrastructure for the editing, production, dissemination, and discovery of long-form digital publications in the humanities

The Manifold Monograph Publishing Platform, Phase II

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Humanitarianisms and World Orders"

Sawyer Seminars - Humanitarianisms and World Orders

Ecological Research - Liberal Arts Faculty/Students

to support the development of a shared bibliographic resource for ethics scholars

Developing a Bibliographic Resource for the Ethics Community

to support the further development of an online bibliographic database and related services for scholars working in the interdisciplinary area of practical ethics

Developing a Bibliographic Resource for the Ethics Community II

to support a Middle Eastern research and fellowship program

Middle East Demography

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" 