The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $14 million in support of 30 colleges and universities across the country working to develop humanities-grounded research and curricular projects.

The funding was part of an open call through Mellon’s Higher Learning program area, which aims to democratize access to humanities funding in higher education institutions. Recipient programs for research and curricular projects fell into one of three categories: cultures of U.S. democracy, environmental justice studies, and social justice and disciplinary knowledge. Grantees included Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Boston University, and Connecticut College.

“We at Mellon know that the significance of the humanities is not merely academic. We also know that humanities scholars at institutions across the country are doing phenomenal work that is making a real impact in the areas targeted by our call,” said Mellon Foundation Higher Learning program director Phillip Brian Harper. “Our objective with this call was to identify and support some of the strongest instances of that work, and the incredibly high quality of the selected grantees shows that we succeeded spectacularly.”

For a complete list of recipients, see the Mellon Foundation website.

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