Mellon Content

Telling the Story of Yemeni Americans Through Their Corner Stores

Karen Michele Nikos — November 30, 2021 - 10:58am

Sunaina Maira, a ��Ƶ professor of Asian American Studies, had planned to explore how President Trump’s travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries affected Arab American communities in the Bay Area. When COVID-19 hit, she shifted her approach.

She found her story on her own street in Oakland in one of the many Bay Area corner stores run by Yemeni Americans.

Why We Need Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month

Karen Michele Nikos — April 21, 2021 - 12:46pm

To celebrate 25 years of National Poetry Month, the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, along with the Academy of American Poets, has launched “Twenty Ten Twenty-Five,” a multimedia production.

Imagining America Receives Grant to Enhance Public Scholarship Nationally

Karen Michele Nikos — July 17, 2019 - 11:59am

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life at the ��Ƶ, Davis, has received $500,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a national IA Leading and Learning Initiative to shift institutional culture in higher education toward greater support of public scholarship in the humanities, the arts and design.

��Ƶ Native American Studies Professor Bridges Disciplinary Boundaries, Receives Mellon Foundation Grant

Karen Michele Nikos — April 07, 2017 - 3:05pm

Liza Grandia, associate professor of Native American studies at the ��Ƶ, Davis, has received a $270,000 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship. The fellowship will allow her to study toxicology and environmental epidemiology to become “a more productive interlocutor” between indigenous communities and the environmental health sciences.

Mellon Content

Telling the Story of Yemeni Americans Through Their Corner Stores

Why We Need Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month

Imagining America Receives Grant to Enhance Public Scholarship Nationally

������Ƶ Native American Studies Professor Bridges Disciplinary Boundaries, Receives Mellon Foundation Grant

��Ƶ Native American Studies Professor Bridges Disciplinary Boundaries, Receives Mellon Foundation Grant