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 Wisconsin Press

University Press Program

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

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

to support studies of students’ family income, the economic returns of college-going, and the factors affecting the prevalence of low-income students at the University

Assessing Equity and Excellence in Public Higher Education: Evidence from a Large Public University

to support a study of biomedical science at Rockefeller University

Biomedical Science

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine

to support the RE:mancipation project, in collaboration with the Curriculum Department at the School of Education, artist Sanford Biggers, and the MASK Consortium, Inc.

Art History and Curatorial Initiative in American Art

for use, in collaboration with the National and University Library of Iceland and the University of Iceland, in support of the development of a modern Icelandic language course

Icelandic Language Course 

to support the publication of scholarly monographs in the humanities, in collaboration with Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh

Monographs Initiative - Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies

History of Cartography

toward costs of the History of Cartography project

History of Cartography - Part IV

toward editorial costs of the Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English

toward editorial costs of the Dietionary of American Regional English

matching grant toward editorial costs of the Dictionary of American Regional English

toward completion of editorial work on the Dictionary of American Regional English

to support editorial costs for the Dictionary of American Regional English

to support the Department of Gender & Women's Studies

Program Support

toward planning costs of the Atlas of American lmmigration History

Immigration History Atlas

to endow a program of Interdisciplinary Workshops in the university's Center for the Humanities

Humanities Center Endowment

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Globalization and the New Politics of Women’s Rights"

Sawyer Seminars - Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights

to support the completion of print and digital versions of the Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English: Volume VI and the Transition to Electronic Editing

to support the university's Engaging the Humanities initiative

Public Humanities

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

Plants Initiative

toward costs of a program of ecological research

Ecosystems Research

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

for a study of the capacity of research organizations to make major discoveries in the biomedical sciences

Biomedical Sciences

for use by the Center for Limnology toward a program of ecological research

Ecological Research

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

Dissertation Seminars

to support a research project within the framework of the Mellon Research Forum that will study the effectiveness of using class discussion as a pedagogical tool geared to specific learning outcomes

The Discussion Project

to support the development of discipline-based portal services

Internet Portal Development 

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Turner

to support exploratory research activities in the uses of botanical data for historical inquiry

History & Botany - Mitman

to continue support for the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes’ Global Humanities Institutes and the further diversification of their membership, nationally and internationally

CHCI Global Humanities Institutes

in support of young investigators in reproductive biology, for collaboration with centers of reproductive biology in developing countries, and to provide seed money for research relevant to contraceptive development

Reproductive Biology - Contraceptive Development

in support of Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

to support and sustain the renewal and enhancement of core humanities departments

Strengthening the Core Humanities

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Interrogating the Plantationocene"

Sawyer Seminar: Interrogating the Plantationocene

to support programs of ecosystems research and training

Ecosystems Research and Training [Carpenter, Turner]

to support the development and dissemination of a World Humanities Report by the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes


A Framework for the World Humanities Report 

to support a pilot study to explore the relationship between linguistic variation in a large corpus of early modern English texts and the development of genres of printed discourse

Visualizing English Print from c.1470 to 1800 

to disseminate the recommendations of the American Eoonomic Association's Commission on Graduate Education

American Economic Association Commission on Graduate Education 

to support further development of software and techniques for analysis of the relationship between linguistic variation in a large corpus of early modern English texts and the development of genres of printed discourse

Visualizing English Print from c 1470 to 1800 - Phase II

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present"

Sawyer Seminars - Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in
the Public Sphere"

Sawyer Seminar: "Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere"

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" 