Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a half-time position to work with scholars on new activities at the School’s Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus

Scholarly Assistance

to support scholarship in Sanskrit and Hittite

Ancient Languages 

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and related social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support the conservation, digitization, and documentation of scrolls held by the Institute of Oriental Studies to be represented in the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive

Institute of Oriental Studies

for use by the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman in support of an Arabic Ianguage program, in cooperation with the University of Jordan

ACOR - Arabic Immersion Program

to support fellowships in humanities data curation for African American and African studies

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Support of Data Curation for African American and African Studies

toward cost of surveying the climate control and storage needs of the Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute Renovation

to support expansion of the university's African American and African Diaspora Studies Program

African American and African Diaspora Studies

to support an integrated research and training model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

Digital Humanities and African American Studies

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Unarchiving Blackness:  Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives"

Sawyer Seminar: Unarchiving Blackness:  Why the Primacy of African and African Diaspora Studies Necessitates a Creative Reconsideration of Archives

matching endowment to support the position of School Archivist

School Archivist

to support the Avery Research Center in African American History and Culture in collection processing, digitization, and outreach and engagement activities

Ethnic Studies Futures: Africana Studies and African American Studies

fellowship support for younger scholars at the School of Historical Studies

School of Historical Studies

to support a postdoctoral fellowship program for data curation in African American and African Studies by extending the existing fellowships by two years

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Data Curation for African American and African Studies - Two-Year Fellowship Extensions

for support of visiting members in the School of Historical Studies in the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

for use of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, for support of visiting scholars at its School of Historical Studies

to support substantial curricular revision and enhancement in Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Middle Eastern and North African Studies

for a program of teaching Arabic language and culture to high school students

High School Arabic Study

to promote the study of Arabic among high-school students, and for general support

to suppon the teaching of Arabic language and Middle Eastern culture among high school students

to support the development of a program of study in Native American Studies and advance the national conversation on the Indigenous boarding school experience with a focus on the history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Native American Studies and the Carlisle Industrial Indian School

to establish an Andrew W. Mellon Professorship of Classical Studies

Classical Studies Professorship

for use by the School of Advanced International Studies in a program of research, discussion, and publication on the Caribbean Basin and U.S. foreign policy in the 1980's

School of Advanced International Studies - Caribbean Basin

to support reorganizations in library and archival services

Reclassification and RFID tagging of ASCSA Libraries and Archives

to support the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in collection processing, digitization, and community and outreach engagement activities

to support the development of an undergraduate minor concentration in African American and African Diaspora Studies

African American Studies Minor Concentration

to establish a program of courses in African American Studies 

African American Studies Program

to support a joint graduate program in Africana studies and art history/studio art

Crossroads Cohort: Africana Studies at the Intersection of Art History and Art Making

toward construction of new facility for its School of Nursing

School of Nursing

to support predoctoral fellowships and to support the core academic program

Academic Program and Fellowship Endowment

Matching endowment to support training, research, and policy analysis at its Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy

Harris School - Public Policy Studies

to support the development of graduate degree programs in a new African American and African Diaspora Studies Department

African American Studies Doctoral Concentration in the Arts 

to support the Critical Race Theory Summer School

Critical Race Theory Summer School

to support the creation of an African American studies major and a tenure-track faculty position in African American history

Tenure-Track Faculty Appointment in African-American Studies

to continue support for a program of courses leading to a new major in African American Studies

African American Studies Program Phase II

to support the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center in collection processing, digitization, and the planning/development of a conservation lab

to endow a Chair in International Studies

School of Advanced International Studies - Mellon Chair

to support collection processing, digitization, and outreach and engagement activities for the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection and other Black history-related holdings at the Chicago Public Library

to support the Schomburg Center in collection enhancement activities, including digital infrastructure improvements and user engagement efforts

Senior President: African Studies

for use by the School of Organization and Management for development and expansion of the public management components of its curriculum

School of Organization and Management

toward costs of a conference on Transatlantic slaving and the African diaspora, co-sponsored with Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Transatlantic Slaving and African Diaspora Conference

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to assist the work of its School of Languages and Linguistics

School of Languages and Linguistics

toward costs of a summer business school in Cracow

Summer Business School

to support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase II

to continue support for an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American Studies

African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative - Phase III

to support implementation of the first phase of a long-term plan for improving the management and dissemination of the School’s library and data collections

Information Resources

toward costs of preserving and cataloguing the School's Documentary Archives

Archival Project

toward costs of a summer business school in Krakow, Poland

EEP - Summer Business School

to support the development by Eugene Lang College of curricula in food and water systems that will enhance its program in Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies

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

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" 