Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a set of programs that provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members with training and experience in academic administration

The University of the Future: Training in Academic Administration

to support an exploration of the feasibility of establishing an inter-university consortium for the use and further development of InscriptiFact, a database of ancient near-Eastern inscriptions

InscriptiFact Development 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge"

Sawyer Seminar: Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge 

to support the transfer of the Dance Preservation and Digitization Project, and continued activity related to access and growth of the collection 

Transfer of the Dance Preservation and Digitization Project

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Critical Mixed-Race Studies

to support the creation of the Irei Names Monument

Irei Names 

Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Public Culture

to support planning for the next version of the Sophie rich media/e-book authoring system, in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book

Sophie 

to support the development of a format for mediarich electronic documents and a suite of open source tools for authoring such documents

Sophie [TK4]

for use by its Center for Research in Education Finance toward costs of its study, "AIlocation and Use of Education Dollars and the Relationship to Educational Productivity"

School Finance

to support institutionally based studies of the requirements for and use of scholarly information

Internal User Study 

to support development of the next version of the Sophie rich media/e-book authoring system

The Sophie Project 

to support an investigation into the utility of an online database of ancient Near Eastern inscriptions

InscriptiFact Usability Evaluation

for development of programs in the arts and sciences

Institutional Advancement 

to support the organization and archival disposition of the papers of William O. Baker, and selected publication of his work

William O. Baker Papers

to support a program of graduate and postdoctoral training in the digital humanities

Digital Humanities

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young nontenured postdoctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Program

to improve the teaching of foreign languages

Foreign Language Teaching  

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

for use in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars 

in support of an undergraduate fellowship program intended to increase the number of minority students enrolled in PhD programs in designated fields of the arts and sciences

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

for use by the Arnold Schoenberg Institute toward support of archival and fundraising activities

Arnold Schoenberg Institute

in support of the development and evaluation of the Fifth Dimension, a program promoting literacy

Literacy Program - 5th Dimension - Evaluation

to complete a study of the relationships among education, income levels, and well-being in the American population

Research on Affluence 

to support a national, interinstitutional alliance to develop new models of multimedia access and publication in the field of visual studies

Alliance for Networking Visual Studies 

to support the evaluation of software needed by the West Semitic Research Project to create an online database of ancient Near Eastern inscriptions

West Semitic Research Project [InscriptiFact]

to support the one-year renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to support planning for the development of a national Visual Culture Council

Planning Visual Culture Research

to catalog, digitize, and expand the photographic archive of ancient Near Eastern inscriptions

West Semitic Research Project 

for development of programs in the arts and humanities on KUSC-FM

KUSC-FM Arts-Humanities Programs

to support a project measuring pedagogic effectiveness and costs of technology in improving undergraduate instruction

Web-based Electrical Engineering Instruction 

to support development of the Internet Mission Photography Archive

Internet Mission Photography Archive Content Development

for an undergraduate fellowship program to increase the number of minority students who enroll in PhD programs in the arts and sciences

to support a meeting to plan a design competition focused on the usability features of a large-scale, interactive digital library

Interactive Digital Library Design Competition 

to support the technical assessment of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and planning for its further development

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase II

to support the further development of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and creation of an institute for multimedia publishing

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase III: Implementation

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to support non-destructive analysis of ancient Near Eastern artifacts at Argonne National Laboratories

Archaeology Research Enabled by Advanced Photon Source

to support the development of an application that will enable electronic books authored with Sophie software to be read on certain mobile devices

Reading Sophie Books on iPad and Android

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Visual History:  The Past in Images"

Sawyer Seminar - "Visual History: The Past in Images"

to support the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program’s Academic Support Project, which aims to improve the academic support and research skills of students

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Academic Support Project

to support the development of a training program in Reflectance Transformation Imaging and an equipment "lending library" for scholars

Lending Library and Training Program for Imaging Ancient Texts and Artifacts

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities"

Mellon Professorship

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

to support scholarly projects using the Sophie authoring tool, and a marketing study for Sophie

Sophie 2.0

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" 