Make a gift to the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere depends on gifts to continue to serve the university and the greater community. Through the establishment of key endowments in the center and the generosity of donors, we support research for faculty and graduate students, the professionalization of undergraduate and graduate students, and the greater public good. Your gift makes it possible to expand and enrich programming that emphasizes the role of the humanities in civic engagement and cultural literacy.
Here are ways in which you can support the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. Below you will find descriptions of three funds that are dedicated to enhancing different aspects of the Humanities Center’s programming.
The Tedder Family Endowment
Based on a gift by Susan and Warren Tedder, the Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship supports humanities research by UF doctoral students. Annual funds cover research expenses, including travel, related to dissertation projects. The Advisory Board of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere selects two Tedder Family Doctoral Fellows in the Humanities per year. Gifts made to the Tedder Family Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities Fund will be dedicated to doctoral research.
The Tedder Family Endowment supports doctoral research, making possible necessary national and international travel to archives and sites for ethnographic study. Current research by Tedder Doctoral Fellows includes projects on Mississippi Choctaw Language Revitalization and on Indian Anglophone Literature, 1820–1910. You will find a complete list of former Tedder Doctoral Fellows here.
Humanities Fund
The Humanities Fund is an endowment that supports a range of programming and activities related to teaching, research, and service in the humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The spendable funds have been used to advance scholarship and international research exchange at UF. In recent years, for example, the fund has supported an international symposium on “Imagining Congo, Imagining Africa, and Text-Image Assemblages” and the “XII Florida Cervantes Symposium.”
Center for Humanities and Public Sphere Fund
The Humanities Center’s newest fund is non-endowed and dedicated to supporting short term projects and one-off programming. For example, a one-time gift may make possible a symposium, a conference, or the invitation of a significant speaker.
The sustainability of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, its programming, and our ability to make future awards depends on support from friends like you. If you would like more information about additional giving opportunities in the center, please contact Rothman Chair and Director, Prof. Barbara Mennel at mennel@ufl.edu.
Contributions by check can be made to the center at any time. Simply send your check made payable to “UF Foundation” with the fund name referenced in the memo to:
UF CLAS Development, PO Box 117300, Gainesville, FL 32611
To learn more about the various ways you can make a gift including pledges, employer matching, and a variety of planned giving opportunities, please visit https://advancement.clas.ufl.edu/ or contact Steve Evans, Executive Director of Advancement at (352) 273-3704 or sevans3@ufl.edu.
The University of Florida Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization; therefore, your gift may be eligible for a charitable income tax deduction.