HUMANITIES FOR ALL TIMES MELLON GRANT
Humanities for Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practices and Social Justice
Call for Proposals: Student Grants for Social Justice Projects
Are you interested in thinking critically and creatively about how humanities methods can be harnessed for social justice work, and then applying these methods to a social justice project in the United States?
Colorado College was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation Humanities For All Times grant for our proposal, “Humanities For Our Times: From Epistemologies and Methodologies to Liberatory Creative Practice and Social Justice.” This grant is currently funding the development of 50 new Equity and Power and/or Creative Processes courses that center ways in which humanities methods—from archival research and critical analysis to artistic production and creative expression—can contribute to social justice work.
As part of this grant, all students who take or have recently taken one of these new courses (listed below) are eligible to apply for up to $1500 to deepen their engagement with the course material by engaging in a social justice project utilizing humanities methods. To apply, you must first discuss the idea with the professor of the class. Once the professor approves and agrees to oversee the project, you can fill out the application form here. You may apply individually or as a team, but please only submit one application form. We will review proposals on a rolling basis, but there will be grants available every block until the end of this academic year. Please allow 2-4 weeks for the committee to review your proposal.
List of eligible courses
Afro-Asia, Performance, Media
Afro-Latin American Culture and Literature
Archives and Counterarchives: The Politics of Historical Knowledge
Curriculum Theories
Economic Thought: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
Economics of Education Policy
Economics of Inequality
Emancipatory Sociology
Engaged Music Creation
Equity and Power in the Mediterranean World
Film Manifestoes/Filmmaking
From Colonial Fantasies to Imperial Debris: The German Colonial Experience and its Legacies
Gender & Sexuality in US Public Schools
Genre & Filmmaking: Realism
Graphic Histories: Reading and Crafting Reflections on the Past
Haunted Landscapes: History, Memory, and the Built Environment
Integrative STEM Education: Promoting Inclusion and Equity
Islamic Cities
Jews, Christians, and Christian Anti-Judaism
Languages and Cultures of Japan
Law for the Earth
Museum Practicum
Music and Gender in Jane Austen’s England
Ousmane Sembene, Griot du peuple et père du cinéma africain (Griot of the people and Father of African cinema)
Performance and Performing
Plantation Afterlives
Politics and Comedy
Power and Equity (specific course offered in the Philosophy Department)
Power of the Arts
Practicing Togetherness: Building Community through the Arts and Creative Action
Puente del Mundo: The Musical Crossroads of Panama
Queer Germany
Queer Latinoamérica
Race and Capitalism
Race, Color, and Consciousness
Racial Capitalism in U.S. Film and Media–1970 to Present
Religion and Asian Studies
Rhizomatic Storytelling
Roman Sports and Entertainment
Sex Cultures, Sexual Politics
Shakespeare and Social Justice
Sustainable Development: Global to Local
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
The Craft of Writing History
The Idea of Latin America
Third Cinema and Its Afterlives
Topics in Francophone Culture: Exploring Cajun and Creole Cultures in the US
Topics in French Culture: L’art et les artistes
Unworking Ableism: Access, Art, and Film
Voice and the Nonhuman. Animals in the Visual Arts, Literature and Theory
