Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support  a collaborative research and graduate education project between the Universities of Pretoria, Cape Town, and Ghana, and Makerere University on urbanization and mobility

Entanglement, Mobility, and Improvisation

Being Human: Mellon 30th Anniversary Artists Residencies 

to revitalize scholarship in the humanities

Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship

to support merit awards for the development of the next generation of academics in the humanities and social sciences

Academic Staff Development

to support a program of graduate training and research

Transdisciplinary Fellowship Program

to support enhancement of research capacity in the humanities through multidisciplinary team research projects

Team Research Projects

to support a second and final phase of the Human Economy Project

Human Economy Project

to support an interdisciplinary research and graduate training program on archival studies

Archives Project 

to support a transdisciplinary program on inequalities encompassing research, creative arts outputs, and graduate development

Understanding Inequalities

to support a supra-institutional collaborative program to develop an inclusive humanities professoriate

Inclusive Professoriate

to support an interdisciplinary research and graduate training program on public intellectuals

The Public Intellectual

to support planning activities for a new graduate program in art conservation

Conservation Program Planning

for use to strengthen demographic research and training in South Africa

South African Demography 

to establish a postgraduate mentoring program

Postgraduate Mentoring Program

to provide discretionary support to the new vice-chancellor

New Vice-Chancellor Support

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

South African Universities Collaboration

to support planning for an Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study Planning

to support South Africa's first graduate degree program in art and cultural heritage conservation

Art and Cultural Heritage Conservation Program

to support a project that would promote collaborative creative production in the literary, visual, and performing arts

Obscuring the Divide: Residencies, Art, and Imagination

to stimulate and strengthen arts and humanities curricula

Unsettling Paradigms: Decolonial Turn in the Humanities Curriculum

to support collaborative programs to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art/University of Pennsylvania Collaboration

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

University of Tartu Library 

to create and support the position of associate deputy director at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable

to support the planning process for a collection sharing initiative at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

College and University Art Museum Program Collection Sharing Initiative

to support initiatives aimed at strengthening the role the Penn Humanities Forum plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

University Humanities Centers 

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 Penn Humanities Forum plays in the instructional and scholarly activities of the University

to support collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Press in a publication program that advances humanistic scholarship in the area of cross-cultural contacts

Cross-Cultural Contacts Publication Program

to support collaborative programs with Philadelphia Museum of Art to provide object-centered research and curatorial training to art history graduate students

to support and strengthen the University of Pittsburgh's Visual Cultural "Constellation" effort for university-wide curriculum reform in the humanities on both the graduate and undergraduate levels

Visual Culture Constellations Initiative

to support a trans-institutional partnership between Tuskegee University and the University of Pennsylvania for preservation education, outreach and practice centered on Black heritage

African American and Civil Rights Heritage and Preservation Programs

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present

to support curricular collaboration between the American University of Paris and Eugene Lang College, The New School in developing global literary studies, transnational cultural studies, and comparative urban and immigration studies

Translation, Transnationalism, & Transformation

to support the interdisciplinary work of the Penn Humanities Forum

to support a publishing initiative on the history of science

Strengthening University Presses

toward costs of establishing the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University

EEP - CERGE

toward costs of establishing a preservation program for the University Libraries in conjunction with regional conservation facilities

Library Preservation Planning

in support of training and research in the history of modern technology

History of Modern Technology 

to support the development of archives for long-term maintenance of electronic journal publications

Archiving of Electronic Journals 

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

toward costs of a project using online pre-laboratory instructional materials to reduce the cost of laboratory instruction

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology

to support a longitudinal study of the academic performance of minority and white students at selective colleges and universities

Longitudinal Study of Selected College Students 

to support software development for a digital library of manuscripts from northern Thailand

Digital Library of Northern Thailand Manuscripts

to support editorial costs for the preparation of the Greater London volumes of the Records of Early English Drama series

Records of Early English Drama 

to support the School of Information Sciences in the development of a graduate research program designed to understand and influence changing information management practices in academic disciplines

Developing New Models of Scholarly Communication Across Disciplines

to support an evaluation of instructional technologies that use peer assessment to promote writing skills among undergraduates

Assessing Tools for Peer Evaluation of Writing Skills

to support editorial costs associated with The Records of Early English Drama series

Records of Early English Drama - Oxford

toward costs of a demonstration project on the use of Collaborative Writing Groups to improve and assess the cost-effectiveness of instruction in expository writing

Cost-Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching - Collaborative Writing Group

to support the development of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the work and development of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL)

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" 