Through its Higher Learning grantmaking area, the Mellon Foundation invites humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics: Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice (further description below). Pre-proposals are due next Friday, November 17. Faculty are welcome to contact Liz Exell (lexell@uw.edu) and Lori White (lbwhite9@uw.edu) from the CAS Corporate and Foundation Relations Office, with any questions or if they would like to learn more about this opportunity. Learn more on the program page here.

Cultures of US Democracy:

Projects that consider the circumstantial conditions that enable US democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society.

Environmental Justice Studies:

Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses.

Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge:

Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy.

As always, Mellon seeks to support institutions with a demonstrated record of excellence in the humanities, and we particularly welcome concepts from institutions that are minority-serving (MSIs) and/or have not received Mellon funding in the last five years. Faculty at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma in relevant disciplines with related project ideas are especially encouraged to apply.

Please submit:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2. CV (not biosketch) of the PI

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Friday, November 17, 2023. If given the go-ahead by the limited submissions review committee, registrations are due to the sponsor 11/30/2023. Other open limited submissions opportunities, as well as the limited submissions review committee review and selection process, are here: http://depts.washington.edu/research/funding/limited-submissions. Please feel free to email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu with questions or information on any limited submission opportunities that should be but are not already listed on that page. If you are interested in other private funding opportunities, visit the Corporate and Foundation funding opportunities.