Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an interdisciplinary initiative that would study the problematic of urban segregation, with an emphasis on St. Louis

Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities: The Divided City

to renew support for an interdisciplinary initiative that would study the problem of urban segregation, with an emphasis on St. Louis

The Divided City 2022

to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

in support of Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

to support new "Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation"

Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation

to support an initiative of the new university librarian

Hydra Implementation Project

to support initiatives to redesign doctoral training in the humanities

Faculty for the Next Generation: Toward New Models of PhD Training in the Humanities

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

to support an exploration of essential questions surrounding the acquisition, discoverability, preservation, and use of born-digital poetry collections

Curation and Stewardship of Poetry Archives

to support field-based seminars for graduate students and faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Vertical Seminar Series

support of research program sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in studies on proteins unique  to the nervous system

Nervous System Research Program

to support the study and documentation of the process by which the authors of a scholarly textbook on the history of American art identify and select images to include in the text

American Art Identify 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East"

Sawyer Seminar: Grounding the Ecocritical

to help meet bridging needs for the advancement of younger faculty members in the humanities in the 1980's

1980s Fund

for development of programs in the arts and sciences

Institutional Advancement

to support dissertation seminars in the humanities

for use by its School of Medicine in providing teaching and research opportunities for young faculty members in the biomedical sciences

Medical Schools Program

to provide fellowship funds for its School of Medicine in support of selected young teachers and researchers working in the basic medical sciences

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships 

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young non-tenured postdoctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Program

to establish seven two-year post-graduate fellowships to foster interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

for use by its Medical School in providing teaching and research opportunities for young faculty members

to strengthen or revitalize areas of the arts and sciences and to encourage new approaches to graduate education

Fresh Combinations 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Japan Embodied:  New Approaches to Japanese Studies"

Sawyer Seminars - Japan Embodied: New Approaches to Japanese Studies

toward renovation of existing hospital facilities to house the Perinatal Center and to provide offices and laboratory space for its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Perinatal Center

Emeritus Fellowships 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "How Deep Is the Ocean:The Rise and Fall of Jazz as Popular Music"

Sawyer Seminars - How Deep is the Ocean: The Rise and Fall of Jazz as Popular Music

toward costs of a project on the History of Modern Freedom

Modern Freedom Project

to support the preservation of web-based resources

Preservation of Social Media

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Nancy Reynolds

New Directions Fellowship (Reynolds)

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

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

to renew support for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

New Directions Fellowship (Messbarger)

New Directions Fellowship (Pegg)

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Renewal

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal

to support ongoing scholarly activities by a former New Directions recipient

New Directions Post-Fellowship Award (Pegg)

to support the renewal of an undergraduate fellowship program

2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program

to support the preservation of the Eyes on the Prize documentary series

The Eyes on the Prize Preservation Project

to support the renewal of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2009 Renewal

to support the production of a documentary film project about the life and achievements of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

Documentary Film on Dr. Benjamin E. Mays 

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2006 Renewal

to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Additional Years Support

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" 