Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

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

Minority Students' College Decisions - Kain

to support classical music presenting activities at Texas Performing Arts

Classical Music Presenting Activities at Texas Performing Arts

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

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

Classical Music Presenting

to support postdoctoral teaching fellows to strengthen disciplinary writing in the humanities

Undergraduate Writing Collaboration with University of Texas at Austin

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 

in support of a program of short-term research fellowships at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Ransom Center - Fellowships

to support a program of research fellowships at the Harry H. Ransom Humanities Research Center

to support the strengthening of graduate student engagement with the collections at the Blanton Museum of Art

Art Museums and Graduate Education

to continue support for the Curatorial Fellowship Program at the Blanton Museum of Art

to support the development of disabled peer mentorship at all academic ranks that offers a model for cross-disability and cross-institutional mentorship and cohort building

The Crip Narratives Collective

to support the creation of a fellowship program for threatened scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean in Austin and Puerto Rico, as part of a network within the Crossing Latinidades consortium at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Threatened Scholars Program

to support research on the economic returns of different college majors

Economic Returns of College Majors

to support short-term residential fellowships at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

to support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible

AVAnnotate - Phase II

to support the use of poetry in audiovisual formats for research and teaching

Annotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

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

to support the development of digital access mechanisms for archival materials related to African American history

Records of Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane - Tool Development and Policy Research

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

Plants Initiative 

in support of a program of research and other activities on immigration and inter-group relations in the United States

Immigrant Policy 

to support the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies

Program Support

for research and training in the demography of developing countries, and in support of a program to encourage minority students to undertake graduate studies in demography

Demographic Center

for use by its Population Research Center for a study of the labor market consequences of immigration for African-Americans

Labor Market/Immigration

for research and training in the demography of developing countries

Demographic Center 

in support of demographic research and training

Demographic Centers Program

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

Immigration - Inter-Group Relations

in support of a visiting fellowship in anthropological demography

Anthropological Demography Fellowships

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

Dissertation Seminars

to support an external assessment of the graduate conservation training program and the development of a plan for its future

Graduate Conservation Training Program Assessment 

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Hamburger

in support of an anthropological fellowship in population studies

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Jirimutu

to support the establishment of a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Fellowships in Anthropological Demography - Escobar

toward costs of retrospective conversion of library catalogue records of the Harry H. Ransom Humanities Research Center

Retrospective Conversion - Harry H. Ransom Humanities Research Center

toward costs of strengthening doctoral training in Latin American sociology

Latin American Studies - Doctoral Training

to support a planning study and pilot of a digitization initiative for archival materials in Latin America

Post-Custodial Archival Development

Latin American Studies - Doctoral Training - Sociology

to support the conservation and preservation of photographic prints held in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Improving Access to Photography Collections 

to support a curatorial position with specialization in Latinx art as part of Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Advancing Latinx Art in Museums

Anthropological Demography Fellowships - Gonzalez de La Rochna

for development of its Latin American Network Information Center

Latin American Studies - Library Resources and Networks

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

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" 