Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

in support of its University Professors Program

University Professors Program

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities"

Humanities Professorship

toward costs of a conference on the role of the humanities in higher education

Humanities Conversazione

in support of seminars in literature and history for graduate students preparing to write their dissertations

Dissertation Seminars

to support a meeting of Foundation-funded scholars working on diversity in higher education

Diversity in Higher Education

to support a New Directions Fellowship for James Uden

New Directions Fellowship (Uden)

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Professor Wiebke Denecke

New Directions Fellowship (Denecke)

to support a Distinguished Achievement Award

Distinguished Achievement Award [Ricks]

to support planning for a collaborative cataloging project with Robert W.Woodruff Library to develop a cross-searchable catalog of the Martin Luther King, Jr. collections

Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to support research on race, inequality, and economic theory

Race, Inequality, and Economic Theory

for use, in collaboration with Brown and  Harvard Universities, toward costs of a program of graduate training in Latin American literature

Latin American Studies - Doctoral Training - Literature

to support a graduate training program in Latin American literature in collaboration with Harvard and Brown Universities

for use, in collaboration with Brown and Harvard Universities, toward costs of a program of graduate training in Latin American literature

to support the reorganization of the library's executive team

Strategic Talent Development for Library Leadership

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century"

Sawyer Seminars - Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures

Sawyer Seminars - Energy Transitions and Society

to support improving scholarly access to collections of the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Collection II

to support the development of a bibliographic database for East Asian archaeology

Bibliographic Database for East Asian Archaeology

to support research on several aspects of the debate over race and diversity in higher education

Analysis of Supply Side of Minority Admissions 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Philosophy of Emerging Computational Technologies:  Humans, Values, and Society in Transition"

Sawyer Seminar: Philosophy of Emerging Computational Technologies

to support the further development of an online, multilingual, bibliographic database of resources in East Asian archaeology

Bibliographic Database for East Asian Archaeology II

to support an ecological research and training program led by a junior faculty scientist

Ecosystems Research and Training: Junior Faculty [Templer]

to support supplementary software development and documentation for the collaborative cataloging of the Martin Luther King, Jr. collection

Software Programmer for Martin Luther King Jr. Collection

to support a software programmer to enhance the open source application used for cataloging the Martin Luther King, Jr. collections

to support the development and implementation of a Web-based, comprehensive, multilingual, bibliographic database of resources in East Asian archaeology

Bibliographic Database for East Asian Archaeology - 
Phase II

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "US and EU Border Externalization Regimes: Ethics, Identities, and Impacts"

Sawyer Seminars - US and EU Border Externalization Regimes: Ethics, Identities, and Impacts

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

to support the creation of community-based archiving and digital scholarship in the development of the Boston Research Center

Boston Research Center

to support the further development of the Boston Research Center

Boston Research Center - Phase II

to expand the activities of its Boston Program

Boston Program

to plan new National Faculty programs in school-districts located in Pittsburgh and Boston

Urban Schools - Boston/Pittsburgh

for use by the Boston/Mellon Consortium for further study and implementation of collaborative activities

Administration Collaboration [Boston/Mellon Consortium]

for support of its library development program to centralize library acquisitions for its member theological schools

Boston Theological Institute Library Development Program

to support the Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music initiative

Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music (BEAM)

to support community and curatorial partnerships, new temporary commemorative installations, and related public programs

Un-monument | Re-monument | De-Monument: Transforming Boston

to provide a final round of support to the Boston Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music (BEAM) initiative

to support the development and sustainability of community-driven tools and workflows to curate and provide access to locally managed cultural heritage collections

Boston Research Center – Phase III

to support the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department

Program Support

to support the High Impact Humanities program to integrate undergraduate research, experiential learning, civic engagement, and career preparation initiatives

High Impact Humanities:  Connecting Curriculum, Community, and Careers for Student Success

to assist efforts to establish an institute through which senior academics can undertake policy studies and provide consultation and mentoring

New England Resource Center for Higher Education

to support a study of the college preparation of Rhodes scholars since World War II

Rhodes Scholars 

for use by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education in its research program on faculty recruitment, retention, and retirement in comprehensive colleges

New England Resource Center for Higher Education - Study on Faculty

Faculty & Curriculum Development

in support of a research program on acuity recruitment, retention, and retirement in comprehensive colleges

Research on Faculty

matching grant to develop ways of increasing earned and contributed income

Period Instrument Orchestras

to support the orchestra’s artistic development and to strengthen its administrative capacity

Small Orchestra Program

in support of artistic and administrative initiatives

Chamber Orchestra Program

to strengthen artistic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 15 small orchestras

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 