Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to continue support for the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program

SSRC Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program

to support Academic Leadership Fellowships

Academic Leadership Fellows

to support an initiative to increase the size of the university’s Black Studies faculty and establish a Detroit Center for Black Studies

Black Studies Faculty Enhancement Initiative

to support a project to examine the impact of race and racism on the identities, histories, and lived experiences of Black, Arab, and Muslim people living in the city of Syracuse specifically and its implications on US racial politics

Black-Arab Relationalities: Confronting Racism, Narrating Solidarities

to support a study of equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts

Clearing the Ground In EDI: Philosophy, Race Theory, and the Diversity Industry

to support a project to develop an interdisciplinary, intersectional curriculum that promotes anti-racism

Democratizing the Humanities

to support research focusing on the use of racial property restrictions in Iowa's metropolitan counties, their impacts, and their implications for racial equity today

Dividing the City: Race Restrictions and the Architecture of Segregation in the Midwest

to support a collaboration between Howard and Georgetown Universities to establish a joint center in health humanities grounded in the community needs of Washington, DC

Medical Humanities Initiative

to support a project to embed the study of race, racialization, and resistance in the undergraduate curriculum

Race, Racialization, and Resistance in the United States

to support a progressive reconceptualization of the organization’s extensive suite of faculty and administrative leadership programs and trainings that place equity and justice at their center and ensure a focus on underrepresented faculty

Revitalizing Leadership Development for Independent Colleges and Universities

to support humanities-centered curricular pathways addressing race-based inequities in health and medicine

Transforming the Future of Health Education: Centering Race and Medical Humanities

to support the implementation of an Academic Leadership Fellows program among member institutions of the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium

to support the expansion of an academic leadership development pilot program with a focus on diversity

Academic Leadership Program Expansion

to support historical research, documentation, and the creation of a new curriculum about the racial history of Decatur, Georgia

Transformed Future

to continue support for the Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty

Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (CEF)

Intersectional Studies

to support a final round of funding for a program of predoctoral and early-career scholarly fellowships in Latinx studies

Mellon/SAR Postdoctoral/Doctoral Fellowships Phase II

to continue support for growth and outreach in the multidisciplinary Pacific Islander Studies program

Pacific Island Studies Growth and Outreach II

to support the extension and elevation of Caribbean-focused digital humanities scholarship, training, and infrastructure across Caribbean and US universities for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates

Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Humanities for Just Communities

Humanities for Our Times

Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment

Intersectionality and Studies in the American South: Establishing an Intersectional Studies Collective

to support a Native and Indigenous studies initiative

Native and Indigenous Initiative

to continue support for four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and Brightpoint and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions

Pathways Program - Phase II

to continue support for the publication and dissemination of comprehensive status reports on the state of race and ethnicity in higher education

Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: A Status Report

to support seeding justice-minded humanities approaches to ethical computing in college and university curricula through an interdisciplinary phase two of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge

Responsible Computer Science Challenge: Humanities/Computing Collaboration Towards Just Tech Futures

to continue support for the transfer of Henry Ford College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Schoolcraft College students in the humanities to the University of Michigan and to strengthen collaboration between faculty in the humanities at both institutions

Transfer Bridges to the Humanities - Phase II

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

Leading Edge Fellowships

to support a program to create a structured humanities learning community for students and faculty members working in fields that focus on the histories and cultures of people of color

Social Transformation Research Collaborative

to support the establishment of a national network of regional comprehensive universities that develop undergraduate-focused digital humanities with an emphasis on ethnic studies and community engagement

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) 

to support a new institutional framework for Indigenous studies and research

Framework for Indigenous Studies and Research

to support a new faculty hiring and curricular revitalization program

Mellon Faculty Diversity Initiative

to support expansion of the University of California's Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship program by sharpening its focus on the humanities at six HSI UC campuses designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions

President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program HSI Humanities Initiative

to support documentation, analysis, assessment, and dissemination of public humanities and inclusive pedagogy projects focused on social and racial justice

Supporting Social and Racial Justice in Higher Education

to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program to promote the hiring of scholars who would enhance diversity among faculty in the humanities

Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence

to support an interdisciplinary leadership training initiative that will use the arts to develop antiracism practices

Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI)

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

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

to support and expand a set of programs focused on Black Studies and racial justice that includes the Colored Conventions Project and the Center for Black Digital Research

Just Transformations

to support the development of a collective model of mentorship through program activities and scholarly collaborations centered on Indigenous knowledge and practices

Praxes of Indigenous Knowledge & Collective Mentorship

Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center: Undoing Inequality

to support a multiyear undergraduate internship pilot program to create pathways to careers in the arts for students from Howard University

Undergraduate Museum Internship Program

to provide implementation support for a convening for women of color leaders in higher education and other sectors

Women of Color Leadership

to continue to support and strengthen the Aspen Presidential Fellowship, which develops cohorts of community college leaders with the skills needed to transform their institutions and impact the field

Aspen Presidential Fellowship & Alumni Network

to support Mellon Leading Edge Fellowships, enabling recent humanities PhDs to partner with nonprofit and government organizations active in the work of social justice and racial equity

Mellon Leading Edge Fellowships

to renew support for the Mellon Research Scholars Program

Mellon Research Scholars Program Part II

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

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