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Affirming Multivocal Humanities
On Campus and Beyond: The State of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
Special feature
Affirming Multivocal Humanities
DateSpring 2024
Brendan George Ko for Mellon Foundation
Public colleges and universities are working with communities to explore a breadth of issues that are core to the human experience.
The place of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in academia has long been contested. Yet, the way that higher learning institutions explore identity through the humanities continues to grow and evolve—leading to a fuller, more complex version of our American story.
Affirming the importance of multivocal humanities activities like these, Mellon made 95 grants across a total of 35 states for a total of more than $18 million to public colleges and universities that are committed to elevating the many perspectives that shape our nation.
This is what multivocality looks like—in the classroom, on the streets, across America.
Through their efforts to ensure broad access to the study of race, ethnicity, gender, and/or sexuality, Mellon grantees are advancing a whole host of activities—from discussions with banned scholars to the creation of public-facing scholarship—to equip a new generation of thinkers and citizens to engage in the multivocal nature of our democracy.
What does the work look like? Who is leading the charge? And what’s changing
as a result?
University of California at Berkeley
Creating a Refuge for Banned Scholars
College of Charleston
Taking Women’s and Gender Studies from Theory to Practice
Phillip Brian Harper
Program Director, Higher Learning
Program Director, Higher Learning
“Study of race, gender, and sexuality is central to work in the humanities, and it is important that inquiry in these areas continue to enjoy robust support.”
University of Montana
Putting Indigenous Stories Back in the Picture
Portland State University
Embracing the Label “Ungovernable” through Queer and Feminist Resistance
University of Illinois at Chicago
Building Bridges with Latinx Studies
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Talking about Race—In and With the Public
Learn more about the institutions that are boldly advancing the studies of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
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