The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University of Pennsylvania a grant to support “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present,” a project directed by Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science. The $5 million grant is part of Mellon’s Just Futures Initiative.
“Dispossessions in the Americas” is an interdisciplinary project that aims to document territorial, embodied, and cultural heritage dispossessions in the Americas from 1492 to the present, and to outline how the restoration of land, embodiments, and cultural values can recover histories and promote restorative justice.
The grant will allow Falleti and collaborators to create a multilingual website, host conferences, publish journal articles, an art catalog, and two coedited volumes, develop arts and performance events, and participate in the design of cultural heritage museums in Mexico and Belize.
Co-investigators are Margaret Bruchac, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Associate Professor of History; Michael Hanchard, Chair and Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor of Africana Studies; Jonathan D. Katz, Associate Professor of Practice of History of Art and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Richard M. Leventhal, Professor of Anthropology; and Michael Z. Levy, Associate Professor of Epidemiology.
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