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Penn Center National Historic Landmark District

Mellon-funded partnership foregrounds Gullah Geechee culture & community

Humanities Festival

UGA Humanities Festival returns for its third year

The annual celebration of humanities research, practice and insight runs March 11-April 2

2025 Delta Visiting Chair Robert Spano

The Willson Center and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music welcome the Atlanta Symphony Music Director Laureate in March

Global Georgia 2025

Global Georgia 2025

Announcing the Willson Center's annual spring public event series

Ashni Patel and Mariah Cady

UGA Students Reap International Awards

UGA's Rhodes and Schwarzman Scholars incorporate study in the humanities and arts

Promoting Scholarly Inquiry & Creative Activity

Robert Spano consults with a UGA music composition major during a reading and rehearsal of student work with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Call for Nominations: 2026-27 Delta Visiting Chair

The Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, established by the Willson Center through the support of The Delta Air Lines Foundation, hosts outstanding artists, writers, musicians, and creative thinkers ...
Claire L. Evans - WC Annual Report header

Willson Center’s 2024-25 annual report now available to read and share online

A record of all the Willson Center and our community in the humanities and arts have engaged with in the past year – and how we are oriented toward the future ...
Susan Rosenbaum and Elizabeth Bishop exhibit

Willson Center supports help lift up English faculty member’s research, leading to major UK grant

Susan Rosenbaum and her research partner received a $351,000 grant from Britain's Arts and Humanities Research Council for a project that will lead to two books on the postcards of poet Elizabeth Bishop, as well as exhibitions at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Sheffield, UK ...

Upcoming Events

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Deadlines

Internal Opportunities (More Information)

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Oct 27 | Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships (2026-27)

Oct 27 | Willson Center Public Impact Grants (2026-27)

Fall TBC | Willson Center Faculty Research Fellowships (2026-27)

No Deadline | UGA Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

External Opportunities (More Information)

The Willson Center offers assistance preparing applications for external grants and fellowships for research and practice in the humanities and arts.

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Oct 15 | Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts: Senior Fellowships

Oct 15 | Stanford University: Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities

Oct 23 | UW-Madison: Solmsen Fellowships & Kingdon Fellowships

Oct 29 | ACLS: Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Oct 29 | ACLS: Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Nov 19 | NEH: Collaborative Research Program

Dec 3 | NEH: Scholarly Editions and Translations

More | NEA | NEH | ACLS  | a2ru