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List of Grants Grants and Contributions Higher Education and Grant Amount Scholarship in the Humanities Digital Humanities Georgia Institute of Technology $1,500,000 Atlanta, Georgia To support the continuation of work by the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center University of Maryland at College Park 2,000,000 College Park, Maryland To support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies University of Pennsylvania 2,000,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To continue to support a program of digital humanities training and research for students, faculty, and surrounding institutional partners University of Rochester 984,000 Rochester, New York To continue to support graduate training in the digital humanities Vanderbilt University 1,500,000 Nashville, Tennessee To continue to support the Center for Digital Humanities in partnership with a select group of surrounding institutions. Diversity in the Academy Bates College 150,000 Lewiston, Maine To support a director of equity and inclusion education for one year while developing an ongoing strategy for campus-wide equity training 104 105 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Grant Amount Grant Amount Community MusicWorks 150,000 Diversity in the Academy: Providence, Rhode Island Latino/a Initiatives To support the documentation and dissemination of a model for antiracist praxis in classical music education University of California at Merced 525,000 Merced, California Davidson College 250,000 To support an undergraduate research program in the Davidson, North Carolina humanities and related fields for underrepresented students To support an initiative that will transform key campus and others interested in pursuing scholarly careers spaces (virtual, physical, temporal) into interactive sites for interrogating race and racism The University of Texas at San Antonio 500,000 San Antonio, Texas Lawrence University 750,000 To continue support for an undergraduate research program Appleton, Wisconsin for underrepresented and other students studying the human- To support underrepresented students in their ities and selected social sciences transition from high school to college Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America 150,000 New York, New York Diversity in the Academy: Mellon Mays Un- To support planning for an expansion of college preparation, dergraduate Fellowship Program retention, and leadership development programs American Council of Learned Societies 6,759,000 New York, New York To support one annual cycle of program renewals at institu- Diversity in the Academy: Historically Black tions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Colleges and Universities Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Hunter, Macalester, Dillard University 500,000 Oberlin, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and New Orleans, Louisiana Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, To renew support for the expansion of the university’s Harvard, Haverford, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, faculty development offerings and a revision of its general Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities education curriculum of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Tougaloo College 614,000 Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and Tougaloo, Mississippi the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; To support faculty development and undergraduate research the City College of New York; The Claremont Colleges, Inc.; related to the Institute for the Study of Modern Day Slavery United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis Xavier University of Louisiana 500,000 New Orleans, Louisiana Social Science Research Council 2,881,000 To support the expansion of a community college student Brooklyn, New York transfer program and a summer bridge program To support the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program 106 107 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Grant Amount Grant Amount Doctoral Education: Fellowships University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2,000,000 Champaign, Illinois American Council of Learned Societies 3,250,000 To support an initiative that enables graduate students at the New York, New York early stages of their program in the humanities to develop To support dissertation completion methodological approaches to thematic questions that require fellowships for graduate students in new forms of expertise and collaborative practice the humanities and social sciences Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 400,000 Princeton, New Jersey To continue support for a program of fellowships that fosters Doctoral Education: partnerships in higher education policy in different states Program Reform and Structure American Council of Learned Societies 3,500,000 New York, New York Faculty: Research and Scholarship To support career diversity preparation for postdoctoral fellowships in government American Council of Learned Societies 2,750,000 and nonprofit agencies for humanities PhDs New York, New York To support a final round of the Frederick Burkhardt Brandeis University 750,000 Residential Fellowship program for recently tenured faculty Waltham, Massachusetts in research universities and liberal arts colleges To support curricular revision and expanded training opportunities in doctoral education Boston University 187,000 Boston, Massachusetts Columbia University 2,000,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for James Uden New York, New York To support the development of graduate Columbia University 225,000 degree programs in a new African American New York, New York and African Diaspora Studies Department To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts” Council of Graduate Schools 1,200,000 Washington, DC Duke University 225,000 To support the third phase of the PhD Durham, North Carolina Career Pathways project To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Language Discrimination in Fragile and New York University 1,500,000 Precarious Communities” New York, New York To support an initiative that incorporates Grinnell College 298,000 the public humanities into doctoral education Grinnell, Iowa To support a New Directions Fellowship for Vance Byrd 108 109 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Grant Amount Grant Amount Indiana University 225,000 Stanford University 37,962 Bloomington, Indiana Stanford, California To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative To support broader participation of US and European Study of Cultures entitled “Rigor: Control and Analysis scholars in a workshop at the university’s center in Beijing in Historical and Systematic Perspectives” entitled “China in the World: Rethinking International Regional Inquiry for the 21st Century” McGill University 224,000 Montreal, Canada Stellenbosch University 150,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for Victor Stellenbosch, South Africa Muñiz-Fraticelli To support a colloquium for early-career scholars Mount Holyoke College 240,000 University of Arizona 225,000 South Hadley, Massachusetts Tucson, Arizona To support a New Directions Fellowship for To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Catherine Corson Study of Cultures entitled “Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads” New York University 260,000 New York, New York University of California at Davis 215,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for Zeb Tortorici Davis, California To support a New Directions Fellowship for Northwestern University 297,000 Meaghan O’Keefe Evanston, Illinois To support a New Directions Fellowship for University of California at Los Angeles 225,000 Anna Parkinson Los Angeles, California To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Northwestern University 225,000 Study of Cultures entitled “Sanctuary Spaces: Evanston, Illinois Reworlding Humanism” To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “The Black Arts Archive: University of Cambridge 225,000 The Challenge of Translation” Cambridge, United Kingdom To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study Rice University 229,000 of Cultures entitled “Histories of Artificial Intelligence: Houston, Texas A Genealogy of Power” To support a New Directions Fellowship for Aysha Pollnitz University of Colorado at Boulder 225,000 Boulder, Colorado Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 300,000 To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative New Brunswick, New Jersey Study of Cultures entitled “Deep Horizons: Making To support a New Directions Fellowship for Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties Susanna Schellenberg & Prospects” 110 111 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Grant Amount Grant Amount University of Maryland at College Park 500,000 American Council of Learned Societies 2,000,000 College Park, Maryland New York, New York To support a research seminar entitled “Race/Ethnicity and To support a series of summer institutes that Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural and Racial Climate: would explore innovative practices of equity African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse” and inclusion in the academy University of Michigan 225,000 Council of American Overseas Research Centers 1,000,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan Washington, DC
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