Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate summer exchange program

University of the Witwatersrand Summer Program

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

Supporting a New Generation of African and Diaspora Writers

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

toward costs of a workshop on digitization in Johannesburg and for travel expenses for the curator of manuscripts in the University’s library to attend a digital imaging workshop at Cornell University

Library Digitization

Wits School of Arts

to support the strengthening of student and faculty engagement with the collections at the Wits Art Museum

Art Museums and the Curriculum

to support initiatives at the intellectual and institutional intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

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 the establishment of a Centre for Creative Arts of Africa

Centre for Creative Arts of Africa

to support the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life research project

Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project

toward costs of publishing T’Kama-Adamastor: Re-envisioning the Colonial Discovery

T'Kama-Adamastor: Re-envisoning the Colonial Discovery

Chair of Human Evolution

to support strengthening of the university's research culture through the engagement of senior research scholars

Senior Research Scholars Program

to support strengthening of the University’s research culture through the engagement of senior research scholars

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 the restructuring and integration of the International Human Rights Exchange into the university's curriculum

International Human Rights Exchange

to support a research and graduate training program on emancipatory futures studies

Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene

to support and strengthen the university’s capacity to conduct demographic research and training

Demographic Research - Tollman

to support ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Large Infrequent Disturbance Research in the Kruger National Park

in support of activities related to the Dual Congress of the International Association for the Study of Human Paleontology and the International Association of Human Biologists

Dual Congress

to support the Chair of Indian Studies for the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa

Indian Studies

to strengthen digital scholarly publishing, collaboration, preservation, and open-access publication, in order to promote the global visibility of African research and the diversity of the humanist canon

African Digital Humanities

to support a research project in the field of medical humanities

Medical Humanities

to support a research and teaching program in the field of forced migration

Refugee Studies

to support the strengthening of its capacity to conduct demographic research and training

Demography Center

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

toward costs of a workshop on the subject of a national union library catalogue

National Union Catalogue - Workshop

to establish a teaching and research program in the field of refugees and forced migration

to support research and training in the field of forced migration

Refugee Studies Centre

to support programs of ecological research and training

Research Bridges [Rogers]

toward costs of a seminar and of a consultants meeting with the South African Digital Imaging Project Committee

Digital Imaging Project Committee

toward costs of a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Riparian Corridors Project

to support the development of academic staff in the humanities and social sciences

Academic Staff Development - Phase II

to support the position of director in the Society,Work and Development Institute

Society, Work and Development Institute 

to complete the final two volumes of the documentary history From Protest to Challenge by Gail Gerhart and Thomas G. Karis

From Protest to Challenge

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

to support the establishment of a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

toward costs of planning for the Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium

Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium

to support a program of ecosystems research and training in Kruger National Park

Ecosystems Research and Training

to support a program of ecological research and training

Ecosystems Research - Kruger National Park

Ecological Research and Training [Kruger National Park]

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 PhD students in their final year of study

Final Year PhD Completion Grants

Travel Fellowships

to support South African universities to institute seminar series on themes of historical and contemporary scholarly and wider public significance

Seminar Series: Mapping African Futures

in support of demographic research and training with particular emphasis on South Africa

Demographic Research

toward costs of continuing a postgraduate mentoring program

Postgraduate Mentoring Program

to support demographic research and training, particularly of South Africa

Demography - Migration Node

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" 