Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support further development of a prosopography of Americans of the Founding Era and of tools for prosopographical research

Developing an Online Prosopographical Database of the Founding Era - Phase III

to support the development of a prototype online biographical database and an encyclopedia of figures from the American Founding Era

Developing an Online Prosopographical Database of the Founding Era - Phase I

to support the creation of an electronic reference work entitled The People of the Founding Era

Developing an Online Prosopographical Database of the Founding Era II

to support further development of digital reference resources and tools

Developing an Online Prosopographical Database of the Founding Era - Phase IV

toward costs of the Virginia Historical Inventory project

Virginia Historical Inventory Project

for a study of the feasibility of establishing public policy institutes in Eastern Europe

EEP - Public Policy Institutes

toward costs of establishing policy institutes and internships in South Africa that will prepare students for careers in public policy

Public Policy and Internships in South Africa

to support the third phase of a public policy education program in South Africa

Public Policy Fellowships

to support program for devdopment of financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Developing Business Community Financial Aid

to support its program of developing financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Financial Aid

to support the development of an information technology skills certification examination for liberal arts students

Technology Skills Certification

in renewed support of its program of developing financial aid from the business community for its member colleges

Financial Aid Development

to support the Charlottesville Forum on the Public Humanities

Charlottesville Forum on the Public Humanities - NEH 50th Anniversary

to support the second phase of a South African public policy education program

South African Public Policy Education 

to support a public policy education program in South Africa

South Africa Public Policy Education

to support initiatives to catalogue, evaluate, and disseminate publicly engaged humanities work

Humanities for All and Study the Humanities

to support four-year pathways in arts and humanities between Virginia Commonwealth University and John Tyler and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Colleges in order to accelerate baccalaureate degree completion and strengthen faculty collaborations between the institutions

Mapping Pathways to the Arts and Humanities

toward the costs of its Program on Public Policy for the Performing Arts

Program on Public Policy for the Performing Arts

to support a research seminar on the public humanities at the Center for the Humanities

Center for the Humanities: Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

to support a multi-year public history initiative that explores representations of Appalachia's individuals, communities, and histories

Monuments across Appalachian Virginia

toward purchase of equipment and the repair and modemization of facilities at the Virginia Forage Research Station

Virginia Forage Research Station

to support the completion fellowships of the current fellows

Public Policy Fellowships 

to support a work plan for establishing a National Leadership Council for the Humanities

National Leadership Council for the Humanities

to support the Humanities for the Public Good initiative

Humanities for the Public Good

Public Policy Project

to support the museum's engagement of humanities scholars in its mission and public programs

Public Humanities Fellowship Program

for a program of information services on Science and Technology Policy

Science-Technology Policy Information Services

to support The Conversation Africa, an online nonprofit daily news magazine, to improve the public visibility of arts and humanities scholarship

Public Arts and Humanities

to continue support for a program of fellowships that fosters partnerships in higher education policy in different states



The Woodrow Wilson Higher Education Policy Fellowship

toward costs of core research and training functions at its School of Public Administration and Policy

Masters in Public Administration and Policy

to support a series of fellowship competitions for scholarly research in the humanities that would result in digital publications

NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication: Phase 2

to support a program of fellowships that fosters partnerships in higher education policy in different states

to support planning for integration of digital humanities across the university

Laying the Foundation for the Digital Humanities

toward early planning costs of exhibitions and publications relating to the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Exhibitions/Publications

to support a comprehensive report that documents higher education institutions' contributions to civic engagement and the public humanities

Publicly Engaged Humanities Survey

to continue support for work to educate the public and policymakers about the vital role the humanities play in national and community life

Role of the Humanities in Community Life

to support the development of a suite of digital tools for humanities scholars and editors

Interpretive Tools for Online Humanities

to support the expansion of current work to educate the public and policy makers about the vital role that the National Endowment for the Humanities plays in national and community life

Promoting Understanding of the Role of the NEH

to support doctoral reinvention efforts centered on expanded training, public humanities opportunities, and the creation of an interdisciplinary PhD

Humanities for the Public Good – Doctoral Reinvention

to support an additional round of applications for, and an assessment of, a fellowship program in digital publication

NEH-Mellon Fellowships in Digital Publication

Humanities Center Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History"

Sawyer Seminar: Reimagining the American Landscape: Race and the Future of Public History

to support curricular, co-curricular, and research activities that strengthen civic engagement and the public humanities

Confounding Problems and the Public Humanities and Arts

in support of a study of the relationships among  economic theory, empirical  research, and public policy

Economic Theory, Research, & Public Policy Study

to support its Public Policy Development program

Public Policy Development

to support renewal of fellowships for research with original sources

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Program for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in the Humanities

to continue support for an undergraduate program for advanced research in the public humanities emphasizing social justice themes

The Mellon Public Humanities Scholars and Social Justice Program

to support a pilot summer program in public engagement and the humanities and graduate education

Summer Program in Public Engagement and the Humanities

in support of its Center for Hemispheric Studies

Hemispheric Studies

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" 