Arts and Culture

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

Plants Initiative

to continue support for the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of the world

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on plants of Africa, Latin America, and other areas

to support the creation of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

African Plants Initiative

Latin American Plants Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on Latin American plants

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on Latin American plants .

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

toward costs of library automation and expanded access to libraries in South Africa’s Free State province

Free State Libraries & Information Consortium

to support the Berlin Without Walls festival

Berlin Without Walls Festival

to support continuation of the Emerging Free Market Economy Program

Emerging Free Market Economy Program

to support the development of curriculum materials by the Free Speech Project

Free Speech Project

to support a fellowship program for Philadelphia-area activists working with local archives to document and reinterpret acts of resistance

Chronicling Resistance at the Free Library of Philadelphia

support of program of free theatre presentations in Central Park, and for its Mobile Theater program

Free Theatre

to investigate the expansion of access to libraries in South Africa's Free State Province through electronic networks

Library Planning

to continue support for research and communications capacity, including for Free to Think, an annual report that documents attacks on academic freedom

Free to Think 2022-25: Defending Free Inquiry, Empowering Connected Communities

to support capacity-building for Free for All at Town Hall

Free for All at Town Hall

to support research on distribution and discovery mechanisms for open access ebooks

Mapping the Free Ebook Supply Chain

to support a research and graduate training program on trauma, memory, and representations of the past

Trauma, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Studies Program

to support a research and digital archiving project on the role, character, and significance of the student protests for South African higher education

The New Student Movement in South Africa - From #RhodesMustFall to #FeesMustFall

to support a supra-institutional collaborative program to develop an inclusive humanities professoriate

Inclusive Professoriate

to support the Program for Innovation in Artform Development

Innovation in Artform Development

to support graduate and postdoctoral studies in the humanities

Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support the Prestige Young Scholars Programme

New Vice-Chancellor Support

to continue support for research and communications capacity, including for "Free to Think," a report on documenting attacks on academic freedom


Free to Think: Documenting Attacks on Universities, Scholars & Academic Freedom

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

Sawyer Seminar: "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900"

to support graduate fellowships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds and to prepare them for academic careers

Graduate Fellowships

to support the development and implementation of a Web-based interface with an integrated thesaurus for the ArteFact collection management system

Library Systems Development 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World"

Sawyer Seminars - The Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World

to support planning for the development of a set of online scholarly resources related to the theme Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa

Online Scholarly Resource - South African Freedom

to support residential fellowships for scholars, writers, and artists

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Reimaging New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom

in support of a symposium on the state of the humanities

Humanities Symposium

to support the expansion of the Getting Word project and the development of the Digital Archive of Slavery to Freedom at Monticello

Next Generation Getting Word: An Archive of Black Freedom

to support research focusing on the relationship between Black Dance practices, location, and racialized identity

Race, Black Dance, and the Embodied Geographies of Freedom

in support of Non-Partisan Voter Education Initiatives for Democratic Elections in South Africa

Voter Education

toward costs of participation in the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching's project "Diversity and Excellence in Public Education"

National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching

toward costs of a library partnership with the University of Tartu in Estonia

University of Tartu Library 

to support a bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated women

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound

toward costs of a project on the History of Modern Freedom

Modern Freedom Project

to support the development of a database comprised of "runaway ads" with improved, high quality metadata thus documenting previously unavailable information about the lives and efforts of enslaved individuals to secure their freedom in the antebellum United States

Mellon-Freedom on the Move Partnership

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics"

Sawyer Seminars - Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics

to support a project that expands capacity for medium- and long-term support for humanities scholars at risk of persecution

Freedom Reads

for library improvement and establishment of an Internet node at the Economics University of Bratislava

Economics University of Bratislava, Slovakia

to support emergency funding for University of Houston students adversely affected by Hurricane Harvey

University of Houston Cougar Emergency Fund

to support the inaugural Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders’ Forum

Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders' Forum

toward costs of providing assistance to the library of the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw Library

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.

Civic Engagement

Civic engagement navigation image - A large crowd of people who are far away and anonymous

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

Expanding Public Knowledge Navigation Image

Monuments and Memory

A large statue of a confederate general is covered in markings and graffiti. 

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" 