GAINES MINI-GRANTS PROMOTE HUMANITIES DESPITE COVID CHALLENGES
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he past year brought tremendous challenges to the humanities community. To offset barriers and foster new relationships in a hyper-digital era, the Gaines Center launched a mini-grant fund for campus partners and their humanitiesrelated programming. Awards were made up to $500, with many partners matching those funds. Ultimately, Gaines co-sponsored nine virtual events with a variety of departments across the University. More than one thousand attendees tuned in to hear featured artists, scholars, and writers share their work.
Many of these events were recorded and can be viewed on the Gaines YouTube page. Mini-grant awardees included a variety of campus departments, such as Anthropology, African American and Africana Studies, the Cooperative for Humanities and Social Sciences, Retailing and Tourism Management, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, the School of Art and Visual Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, and the English Graduate Association.
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