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Ford Foundation Grant Program (2000)
The Ford Foundation is pleased to be a part of renewed efforts to support innovative scholarship and teaching in this field. One particular program with funding totaling $25 million over a six-year period supports a new initiative, "Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies."
The initiative has two aims: first, to support intensive study of particular languages, cultures, and histories, building on the first half-century of work in area studies; and second, to foster innovative thinking and practices related to the field of area studies itself, through a variety of partnerships, as well as disciplinary and other "border-crossings."
The pages that follow describe the first set of grants made under this initiative to thirty colleges and universities throughout the United States. The impact of these grants, the Foundation hopes, will reverberate well beyond the thirty institutions that received support. This booklet is intended to stimulate that process by sharing information and ideas, and by fostering networks and new collaborations. Ultimately, the revitalization of such a crucial scholarly field may enhance international cooperation and foster a better informed citizenry.
Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies Complete Document (59 Pages)
Crossing Borders at Other Univeristies
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Hamline University
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- University of Michigan
- Middlebury College
- University of Texas at El Paso
- Washington University
- University of Virginia
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Yale University