“The More Equitable Funding of Knowledge”
The Miami Institute’s Course for Funders
The Miami Institute for the Social Sciences offers a four-week course for funders on “The More Equitable Funding of Knowledge.” The course underscores ways that funders can address existing inequities in their funding of knowledge in the social sciences and neighboring fields—a problem in which elite funders in the Global North long have played a critical role in creating and sustaining.
Session 1: “The Social Problem of Inequities in Knowledge Production”
Session 2: “Theorizing Knowledge”
Session 3: “Acknowledging Valuations in Research”
Session 4: “Reforming Funding Strategies on Knowledge”
To express interest in such a course, please follow the below link.
Please note: Dr. Maribel Morey, the Miami Institute’s Executive Director and author of White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order, currently leads the funder’s course. A historian of US philanthropy and the social sciences, Morey has over a decade of experience observing and commenting on philanthropic practices in elite foundations in the United States. Please follow this link for a list of Dr. Morey’s publications.