Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the programmatic expansion of the new Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

Ignite/Arts Dallas

to support the production of a symposium and essay volume featuring scholars who engage with literature on memorialization and consider how memory informs the histories of the South and West

Contested Commemorations—Public Memory in the South and West

SMU DataArts

to support the Ignite/Arts Dallas initiative

to strengthen the teaching of arts and humanities

Faculty and Curricular Development

to support a New Directions Fellowship for Lisa Siraganian

New Directions Fellowship (Siraganian)

to support two postdoctoral curatorial fellows in Spanish art

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Spanish Art

to support three postdoctoral curatorial fellows in Spanish art 

Postdoctoral Fellows in Spanish Art

to enable the Southern Fellowships Fund to administer a program of faculty fellowships

Southern Fellowship Fund

support of Southern Fellowships Fund, an agency administering fellowship programs for the Council's member universities

to enable the Southern Fellowships Fund to administer a program of assistance to selected leading private black colleges, under which grants will be made directly by the Foundation

to support the Southern African Legal Information Institute

Southern African Legal Information Institute 

to support an interdisciplinary and collaborative curricular program for Southern Appalachian studies

Building a Collaborative for Southern Appalachian Studies

Southern Writers Project

for use as permanent endowment and toward matching an endowment challenge to support the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit's Summer Training Programme

Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit - Summer Training Program

for use by the Southern Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group

Southern Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group

to support the Southern Writers’ Project

Southern Writers Project [National Theater Program]

to support a residency and touring initiative for Southern dance companies

Building Tour Capacity for Southern Dance Companies

Black College Faculty Development

to support a set of programs that provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members with training and experience in academic administration

The University of the Future: Training in Academic Administration

to support capacity building for digital infrastructure development and long-term sustainability

Sustainability for Southern California Library

to support an exploration of the feasibility of establishing an inter-university consortium for the use and further development of InscriptiFact, a database of ancient near-Eastern inscriptions

InscriptiFact Development 

to support South African universities to institute seminar series on themes of historical and contemporary scholarly and wider public significance

Southern Epistemologies  Seminar Series

for development of programs in the arts and sciences

Institutional Advancement - Southern Studies

to support the development of a strategy to digitize major documentary collections pertaining to the American South

Southern Historical Collection Archive

to support the creation of portal services designed to assist scholars in identifying, locating, and retrieving research materials for the study of the American South

Scholarly Portal for Southern Studies 

to support a Just Futures Initiative project

Just Futures Initiative: Latinx Futures: The Civil, Cultural, and Political Stakes for Southern California Latinx Communities

to support the development of community-based archives

Community-based Archives: Southern Historical Collection

to support an ecological research and training program led by a junior faculty scientist

Ecosystems Research and Training - Junior Faculty - Baer

to support the preservation of audiovisual holdings in the library and a pilot program that would extend such services to the region

Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources

to support planning for the large scale digitization and preservation of audio and audiovisual collections, and development of access mechanisms for the resulting digital files

Preservation of Southern Audio and Audiovisual Resources

to support the creation of the Irei Names Monument

Irei Names 

Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Public Culture

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge"

Sawyer Seminar: Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge 

to support sustainability planning for audiovisual preservation, including state-wide and regional digitization services

Extending the Reach of Southern Audiovisual Sources: Sustainability

to support planning for the next version of the Sophie rich media/e-book authoring system, in collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book

Sophie 

Institutional Advancement

to provide additional opportunities for the appointment of young nontenured postdoctoral scholars in the humanities

Postdoctoral Program

to endow "The Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities"

Mellon Professorship

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

Dissertation Seminars 

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

Dissertation Seminars

for use by its Center for Research in Education Finance toward costs of its study, "AIlocation and Use of Education Dollars and the Relationship to Educational Productivity"

School Finance

Institutional Advancement 

to support a program of graduate and postdoctoral training in the digital humanities

Digital Humanities

to support postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences

Postdoctoral Fellowships

to support a dissertation seminar in the humanities

to support scholarly projects using the Sophie authoring tool, and a marketing study for Sophie

Sophie 2.0

Artists as Catalysts

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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" 