Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

Building University and Interinstitutional Connections for the Study of the South

to support an interdisciplinary and collaborative curricular program for Southern Appalachian studies

Building a Collaborative for Southern Appalachian Studies

to strengthen the relationship between the academic and residential programs at liberal arts colleges

The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges

to support programs designed to increase faculty involvement in residential campus life

to support the appointment of new faculty in the humanities and social sciences in anticipation of retirements

Fresh Combinations - Faculty

to improve educational effectiveness and gain financial efficiencies through the use of electronic resources

Educational Effectiveness

to support faculty members in the humanities and social sciences in anticipation of faculty retirements

to support the establishment of a students’ research fund that will enable more student-faculty collaborative work to occur

Students' Research Fund

in support of planning to improve educational effectiveness and to gain financial efficiencies

to support the environmental studies program

Environmental Studies

to support membership in the Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions program

Emeriti Incentive Award

Faculty Support

to support language, cultural acquisition, and study abroad

Language & Globalization

New President

to support a collaborative project that would improve academic advising at five liberal arts colleges

Academic Advising 

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

Faculty & Curriculum Development

to support cross-disciplinary faculty collaborations

Mid-Career President: Academic Support

to support a first-year college transition program

Midcareer President: First Year Transition - Finding Your Place (FYP)

to support multi-institutional collaboration

Enhancing the Student Experience and Examining Common Costs:  A Pilot Collaboration across Three Campuses (with Rhodes College and The University of the South)

to support the University of the Witwatersrand’s Rock Art Research Institute work to create the South Africa Rock Art Digital Archive

South African Rock Art Digital Archive

to support the University of the Witwatersrand’s Rock Art Research Institute meeting to plan a South African Rock Art Digital Archive

to establish oceanic humanities as a field in the Global South, through research, graduate curriculum development and training, building Global South research networks, and promoting public humanities activities and platforms

Oceanic Humanities for the Global South

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Property, Race and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa"

Sawyer Seminars - Property, Race, and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa

to support the creation of a digital archive of South African rock art

toward costs of planning a digital imaging project in South Africa

South Africa's Struggle for Democracy

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

South African Universities Collaboration

to support collaborative initiatives among Centre and Rhodes Colleges and Sewanee: The University of the South

Strengthening Our Institutions

to support a project that rethinks the ways in which the field of South African literatures is conceptualized and understood today


Rethinking South African Literature (s)

to support the South African Rock Art Digital Archive

to support a research and digital archiving project on the role, character, and significance of the student protests for South African higher education

The New Student Movement in South Africa - From #RhodesMustFall to #FeesMustFall

to support efforts to cover legal and administrative costs to establish the South African Rock Art Digital Archive as a legal entity

to support the establishment of an enduring academic pipeline model for promoting historically underrepresented South African college students to complete graduate studies in the humanities

Academic Pipeline Program in Three South African Universities

to support the Southern African Rock Art Digital Archive project

for faculty development and to strengthen the library

South African Universities

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 strengthen its capacity for graduate education

to support an ecological research and training program

Research Bridges - South Africa [Rogers]

to support a project that studies the history of ballot access

Civic Engagement, Voting Rights, and the Founding Documents at the University of South Carolina

to support the planning efforts to design a collaborative project among three historically black colleges (Saint Paul’s, Saint Augustine’s, and Voorhees) and an Appalachian institution (the University of the South)

Institution Building - Collaborative Faculty Development

to support an academic initiative on the Global South

The Global South

matching funds for faculty development and to strengthen library collections at three open universities in South Africa

Supplement - University of the Western Cape

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

University of Tartu Library 

to support a research and graduate training program on the persistence of gender inequalities in the Global South

Governing Intimacies: Sexualities, Gender, and the State in the Postcolonial World

to support a project that reimagines tragedy and theater studies from the perspectives of Africa and the Global South

Re-imagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South"

Sawyer Seminar--Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South

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" 