Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to continue support for Crossing Latinidades, a Latinx Studies research and training program for advanced graduate students and a network of public research intensive Hispanic-serving institutions

Crossing Latinidades: Emerging Scholars and New Comparative Directions

to continue support for the Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative

Religion and Renewing Democracy Initiative Phase II

to continue to support a degree-granting partnership between the University of New Haven and the Yale Prison Education Initiative for incarcerated students in Connecticut

University of New Haven/Yale Prison Education Initiative Degree Granting Partnership – Phase II

to continue support for the implementation of an academic leadership fellows program among member institutions

Academic Leadership Fellows: Phase II

to continue support for dissertation writing fellowships to spur methodological and cross-disciplinary innovation in the humanities

Dissertation Innovation Fellowships III

to continue support for postdoctoral fellowships in social justice-oriented government and nonprofit agencies for humanities PhDs

Leading Edge Fellowships V

to support increased participation by humanists in established academic leadership programs with strong alumni networks

Academic Leadership Programming for Humanists

to support the creation of two archives capturing the advocacy and work of Dolores Huerta and the Dolores Huerta Foundation

Archiving Dolores Huerta's Legacy and Shaping the Future of Latinx Studies at an HSI Campus

to support planning for an Environmental and Climate Justice University Centers and Movement Partners Council

Centering Justice in Higher Education

to continue support for operational capacity building, facilitate Indigenous foodways education and access, and expand Indigenous Food Labs to additional sites in Montana and Alaska

Elevating and Advancing Indigenous Knowledge and Communities Through Foodways 

to support an intervention in the field of public health that centers humanities knowledge and methods through a US-based COVID-19 oral history project, interdisciplinary curricular development, and faculty training across multiple institutions

Stewards in the Storm: A Research Resource and Curricular Initiative Centering Public Health Leaders and Their Experiences with Pandemic Backlash

to support the production of an in-depth study of the Yale Transition Year Program of 1966-1967

Yale Transitional Year Program Project

to continue to support the Education Preparedness Program and expansion of the McNeely Prison Education Consortium

Education Preparedness Program Phase II

to support a humanities-centered internship program

Mellon Internship Program in the Humanities

to support the administration and annual institutional renewals for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

MMUF Administration and Annual Institutional Renewals

to support the Transgender Educational Network: Theory in Action for Creativity, Liberation, Empowerment, and Service Initiative

TENTACLES Initiative

to support research and national organizing around best practices in prison education for students serving life sentences

More Than A Degree: College Education and the Life Sentence in Carceral America

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Elizabeth Hinton

New Directions Fellowship: Challenging Racism in the Law Project

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Emily Johnston

New Directions Fellowship: Developing A Pedagogical Theory of Resilience for Writing Studies

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Samuel Spinner

New Directions Fellowship: Opening the Books: Studying Data Science to Analyze Post-Holocaust Yiddish Literature

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Jonathan Fenderson

New Directions Fellowship: Project Noise: NYC Public Housing, Neoliberalism & the Ascent of Hip-Hop America

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Ava Purkiss

New Directions Fellowship: Race, Gender, and Gynecological Medicine

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Camisha Russell

New Directions Fellowship: Reckoning with Foundational Sins: A Philosophical Inquiry into Blackness and Indigeneity in the US Nation

to support a New Directions Fellowship for William Bridges

New Directions Fellowship: Reparational Reading

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

New Directions Fellowship: Sherpa Geomorphology for Collective Survival on Warming Planet

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Tessa Murphy

New Directions Fellowship: Slavery & Big Data: New Approaches to Colonial Records

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Julie Reed

New Directions Fellowship: You Are Not an Archaeologist

to support a cohort-based general education and support program for students recently released from South Dakota carceral facilities

SDSU Post-Carceral Educational Opportunity Program

to support research regarding the economic value of a liberal arts education

Understanding the Economic Value of a Liberal Education

to support the Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia program

Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia (VISTA)

to support a study on the future of academic freedom and a public relations campaign to strengthen support for higher education

The Defense of Academic Freedom: A Center and a Campaign

to support the Wikipedia Student Program's Knowledge Equity Initiative

Amplifying the Diverse Human Experience on Wikipedia

to support a final round of the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative, a partnership between Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga Community College that seeks to increase participation in humanities education and degree attainment across the humanities disciplines

Cleveland Humanities Collaborative - Phase III

to support a final round of the Humanities Edge program, a partnership between Miami Dade College and Florida International University

Community College-University Partnerships

to support community engagement opportunities that integrate the arts into the university community and beyond

Community Engagement in the Arts and Arts Education

to support the Critical Race Theory Summer School

Critical Race Theory Summer School

Dean's Academy Futurists

to continue to support prison education and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students through engagement with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at research universities

Education Justice Project - Phase III

to continue support for fellowships and programming related to environmental justice

Fellowships for Public Engagement

to support the expansion of the Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program

Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program

Humanities for Today

to support fellowships in race and social justice as part of the Philosophy in Media initiative

Philosophy in Media: Mellon Fellowships in Race and Social Justice

to support Formerly Incarcerated, Radically Empowered with development of research and resources that address the well being of formerly incarcerated people

Post-Carceral Trauma

to support the Indigenous Nations and American Indian Studies/Social Sciences Program

Program Support

to support critical race approaches and curricular experimentation in classical studies

Racing the Classics Project

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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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" 