Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the growth of the archive, its capacity for consultative support to other community archives, and its long-term sustainability

Texas After Violence Project

to support capacity building for Mourning Our Losses

Mourning Our Losses

to support a convening of the Community Archives Collaborative

Convening Support for Community-Based Archives Collaborative 

to support planning for the future of the Community Archives Collaborative

Community Archives Collaborative

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

to support a research and graduate training program on violence

Critical Violence Studies

to support a study of college enrollments in Texas before and after the Hopwood v.Texas decision

Texas College Enrollments [Tienda]

to support a project that will train a new generation of college in prison educators through a seminar and practicum in the history and theory of prison literature by and about incarcerated people in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean


Pido la palabra: A Texas Prison Literature Project for Social Justice and the Literary Imagination 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Bordering Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Americas"

Sawyer Seminars - [B]ordering Violence

to provide supplementary support for a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Violence and Empire"

Sawyer Seminars - Violence and Empire

to support classical music presenting activities at Texas Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at Texas Performing Arts

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Theatre After Athens: Reception and Revision of Ancient Greek Drama"

Sawyer Seminars - Theater After Athens

to support an interdisciplinary project focused on birds that will engage students, faculty, and community members in reclaiming environmental knowledge already existing in borderlands Indigenous and Mexican American communities; train graduate and undergraduate students in transdisciplinary and community-based research methodologies; develop collaborative university/community partnerships and create broad public access to humanities-led programming to advance local environmental justice

Urban Bird Project

to support continued work on a database created under a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Theatre After Athens: Reception and Revisions of Ancient Greek Drama"

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and The Logics of Gender-Based Violence"

Sawyer Seminars - Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and The Logics of Gender-Based Violence

to support expansion and dissemination of game-based learning and teacher development programs to improve outcomes for disadvantaged middle- and high-school students

After the Storm

to support a teacher recruitment program to encourage men of color to enter the teaching profession in New York City public schools

Pilot Teacher Recruitment

Classical Music Presenting

to support a Texas-wide Harvey Arts Recovery regranting fund

Harvey Arts Recovery Fund

to assist the scholarly publication program of the University of Texas Press

University Press Program

in renewed support of the scholarly publication program of University of Texas Press

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant cultural developments

to support a program of graduate research and training at the Centre for Humanities Research

CHR - Migrating Violence - Community, Citizenship, and Belonging

to subsidize publication of humanities books and to encourage use of new technologies by the University of Texas Press

to support research on factors affecting Texas high school students decisions to attend college and the effects of recent rulings barring the use of race in college admissions

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain - Part II

to support the streamlining of humanities transfers and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

The Humanities Collaborative

to continue support for the streamlining of humanities transfer processes and collaboration between humanities faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College

Community College-University Partnerships

to support emergency relief efforts for University of Puerto Rico students who have been affected by Hurricane Maria

Emergency Support for UPR after Hurricane Maria

in support of its Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

Choreographer-Composer Collaboration Project

to support development of guidelines for sustainable practices of care in the academy for faculty, staff, and administrators across multiple institution types

Pedagogies, Communities, and Practices of Care After COVID-19

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of major contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Mass Violence & Genocide in the 20th Century  

to support the expansion of The Sunrise Project and related research and public programming on the history of sundown towns in communities across Oregon

The Sunrise Project

School Justice Project

to support the establishment of a Cultural District and the Project Row Houses Institute

Project Row Houses Institute

to support the Ultraviole(n)t Exposures project, including salaries for staff and research assistants, fellowships, public programming, a digital humanities platform, and the construction of a traveling shade event and exhibition space

Ultraviole(n)t Exposures

toward the costs of documenting and analyzing the Project's contributions to ballet choreography, and to help examine its leadership, governance, and program structures

Documentation Project

The Laramie Project Residency

to support a Humanities for All Times project

Deepening the Heart of Texas: Public-Engaged Humanities for Social Justice

to support the curricular integration of core liberal arts skills

Fifth-Term Seminars: Centering and Integrating the Liberal Arts After the First-Term

toward costs of its project on the environmental opportunities presented by the federal bailout of the savings and loan institutions

Savings & Loan Bailout

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Democratizing Racial Justice: Remembering Histories, Transforming Futures

to support a humanities-centered voting rights and civic engagement initiative

Convening Series: Roots and Shadows - Mining History to Counter Political Violence and Threats to Election Integrity in Appalachia

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue"

Sawyer Seminars - Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom: Interconnections in Comparative Dialogue

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "The Afterlives of Liberation: Antiracist Praxis for the Twenty-First Century"

Sawyer Seminars - The Afterlives of Liberation: Antiracist Praxis for the Twenty-First Century

to support the development of organizational capacity, technical assistance, research and programs

The JXN Project

for a program of research on forest ecology

Forest Ecology

for use by the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) in support of its publications and other organizational activities

Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium

to support development and implementation of a new version of an online data collection and management platform for the arts and culture sector

Cultural Data Project 2X

to support capacity building for a community building arts organization in Chinatown

The W.O.W. Project

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.

Borderlands Cultures

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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

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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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" 