YBOP Partners

Yale University Department of Music

The Department of Music is the home of scholars and students who continue a tradition of study stretching back to the ancient world. One of the seven original liberal arts, music maintains a place in the university as a subject of broad and passionate interest to composers, historians, ethnomusicologists, performers, and theorists. At Yale, all of these form a community dedicated to furthering a knowledge and love of music. Using the abundant musical resources at Yale—which include graduate professional schools of Music, Art, and Drama, an Institute for Sacred Music, a renowned collection of historical instruments, and an exceptionally large library of scores, recordings, books, and original manuscripts—the Department of Music provides an extraordinarily rich musical environment unmatched by any other college or university.

Whitney Humanities Center

The Whitney Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary institution that reflects Yale University’s longstanding commitment to the humanities. The Whitney promotes research and scholarly exchange across fields and is especially committed to supporting the activities of faculty and students whose work transcends departmental boundaries. The Whitney is also the home to a broad-based intellectual community defined by a distinguished fellowship that meets weekly, as well as housing the Humanities Program, an interdisciplinary council of scholars from eleven departments responsible for two of Yale’s most prestigious interdepartmental undergraduate programs: Directed Studies and the Humanities major.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Intended to underscore the decisive role the humanities play in the nation's intellectual life, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Awards honor scholars who have made significant contributions to humanistic inquiry and enable them to teach and do research under especially favorable conditions. At the same time, the awards enlarge opportunities for scholarship and teaching at the academic institutions with which the recipients are affiliated.

Amounting to as much as $1.5 million each, the awards provide the recipients and their institutions with resources to deepen and extend humanistic studies. In contrast to other notable academic award programs that benefit individual scholars exclusively, the Distinguished Achievement Awards are designed to recognize the interdependence of scholars and their institutions. Accordingly, while this grant program honors the achievements of individuals, the grants themselves will support specific institutional programs of activities that will enhance both research and teaching.