IA Julie Ellison Vision Award
Imagining America welcomes contributions to establish an award honoring the visionary work of IA’s founding faculty director Dr. Julie Ellison.
The Julie Ellison Vision Award will recognize the leading-edge visions for justice, equity, and transformation in higher education by current and former fellows in IA’s Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) program. Under Julie’s leadership, the PAGE Fellows program launched in 2003 and expanded through the organized efforts of community-engaged graduate student fellows in the arts and humanities from IA member institutions.
This is only the second award established by Imagining America (joining the Randy Martin Spirit Award), and we are proud to recognize Julie, who is a treasured mentor, friend, and inspiration for so many in the IA community.
About Julie Ellison
Professor Emerita at University of Michigan, Julie held joint appointments in the Departments of American Culture and English Language and Literature. Her scholarship addresses literary and cultural history focusing on gender and genre in 18th- and 19th-century U.S. and Britain, and she has published extensively on civic engagement in higher education and cultural organizations, and the public humanities.
In 1999, Julie became the founding faculty director of Imagining America, setting the foundation for twenty-five years of work focusing the combined energies of higher education and the public arts and humanities on building the commons. With Timothy K. Eatman, she co-authored Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University (2008)—a crucial text advocating for campus change to recognize public scholarship among faculty.
To Donate Online Via Credit Card
Please use Imagining America’s donation platform — hosted by the University of California, Davis — to share your contribution at https://give.ucdavis.edu/Donate/YourGift/IAGIFTS.
Please note in the comments field that your contribution is for the IA Julie Ellison Vision Award.
To Donate Via Check
Please make the check payable to ‘University of California Davis, Imagining America’ and mail to:
- UC Davis, Imagining America
- One Shields Ave
- Davis, CA 95616
In the notes section, please write IA Julie Ellison Vision Award.
Funding has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
