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Democratizing Knowledge Project to Host Planning Retreat for Mellon Summer Institutes

Posted on: Sept. 30, 2015

Syracuse to welcome colleagues from Rutgers-Newark and Spelman College

Last year, the Democratizing Knowledge Project (DK), an interdisciplinary collective of faculty and graduate students at Syracuse University, was awarded a four-year, $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a series of summer institutes titled “Just Academic Spaces: Creating New Publics through Radical Literacies.” Linda Carty, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor and chair of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), as well as Dean’s Professor of the Humanities in Syracuse’s College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are the co-PIs on the grant. Read More at: AS News