Call for Participants: Global Humanities Institute 2026
Indigenous Mobilities, Tourism, and Racial Capitalism
Application Deadline:
May 1, 2025, by 11:59 pm Central Daylight Time (GMT -5)
Institute / Diplomado Dates: January 5-16, 2026
Grants and Initiatives
University of Minnesota Duluth researchers receive $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to launch new food justice hub
February 27, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce that a project that will engage community members in identifying environmentally sound food justice solutions—helmed by two faculty members from the University of Minnesota Duluth’s (UMD) College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS)—was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Center for Canon Expansion and Change Receives $500,000 Grant from the Mellon Foundation
February 25, 2025
The Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce that the Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) has received a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support and expand its mission of broadening the philosophical canon and training educators to teach around a broader set of ideas.
Transatlantic Indigenous Exchange in Australia
February 21, 2025
By Kylie Message-Jones, Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre
Originally published at ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences News
Institute for Advanced Study awards more than $60,000 through Imagine Fund Special Events Grants to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and public engagement
January 27, 2025
Eight major event projects across the University were awarded grants
The Institute for Advanced Study announces more than $60,000 in funding to support eight new Special Events grant projects across the University of Minnesota focused on the arts, humanities, and design.
National Endowment for the Humanities grant allows U of M Libraries to pilot digital workflow for interactive flap books
January 15, 2025
The Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine (WHL) and Digital Library Services (DLS) have been awarded a $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research and Development Grant. “Making Meaning from Movement: Piloting a Digital Workflow for Interactive Flap Books” will develop a workflow for digitizing and hosting interactive flap books in online digital collections environments.
University of Minnesota Receives $75,000 Seed Grant to Partner with Tribal Colleges to Transform STEM Education for Indigenous Students
May 14, 2024
An ambitious new planning project aims to radically remake the role of predominantly white institutions in STEM graduate education by centering Tribal Colleges and Universities in tribal land- and self-determination-based science training.
University of Minnesota receives $226K grant for global gathering on Indigenous responses to mass tourism
April 23, 2024
Consortial Partners Reflect on Humanities Without Walls’s Evolution
September 25, 2023
The Mellon-funded Humanities Without Walls network has created stronger, lasting institutional connections.
In the beginning, Humanities Without Walls was an untested idea. An experiment. Building HWW’s infrastructure was an evolutionary process, with several of the consortial partners finding ways to map or adapt HWW ideologies onto pre-existing institutional landscapes, while other members of the consortium forged ahead into more uncharted territory.
University of Minnesota receives $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore justice in policing
May 1, 2023
The Institute for Advanced Study announces that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $225,000 to fund a Sawyer Seminar at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities titled Just Policing: The Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement.