{"id":22346,"date":"2023-01-30T14:35:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-mellon-foundation-grants-more-than-12-million-to-recipients-of-inaugural-higher-learning-open-call-for-civic-engagement-and-social-justice-related-research-and-projects\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:35:23","slug":"icymi-mellon-foundation-grants-more-than-12-million-to-recipients-of-inaugural-higher-learning-open-call-for-civic-engagement-and-social-justice-related-research-and-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/icymi-mellon-foundation-grants-more-than-12-million-to-recipients-of-inaugural-higher-learning-open-call-for-civic-engagement-and-social-justice-related-research-and-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Mellon Foundation Grants More Than $12 Million to Recipients of Inaugural Higher Learning Open Call for Civic Engagement and Social Justice-Related Research and Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-12 panel-display mccoppin clearfix \">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 radix-layouts-column2 panel-panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-panel-inner content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-gia-submitted-by field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<div class=\"field--name-node-submitted-by\">Submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/blog\/Jaime%20Sharp\">Jaime Sharp<\/a> on January 30, 2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-body field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>&#8220;The Mellon Foundation\u2014the nation\u2019s largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities\u2014today announced more than $12 million in funding to support twenty-six colleges and universities across the nation mounting social justice-related research or curricular projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The grants are the result of Mellon\u2019s Higher Learning inaugural open call\u2014announced in Spring 2022 as a means of continuing to support inquiry into issues of vital social, cultural, and historical import.  The open call invited proposals from institutions exploring three distinct topical categories\u2014Civic Engagement and Voting Rights, Race and Racialization in the United States, and Social Justice and the Literary Imagination\u2014in an effort to help illuminate the significance of voting rights controversies in US history from numerous humanities perspectives; demonstrate the complex import of race and racialization within US culture and society; and highlight the role of the literary imagination in making and remaking worlds and societies, past and present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open to any accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting institution in the US with more than 1,000 full-time degree-seeking undergraduates and multiple humanities degree programs, the call generated more than 280 submissions from 150 institutions. 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