Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota

As a University-wide interdisciplinary center, the Institute for Advanced Study is a resource for scholars, artists, professionals, and students who are engaged in a wide variety of study and practice. The IAS also serves as a bridge between the University and the wider community as a place where people meet and ideas are exchanged. The IAS provides funding support for faculty research, interdisciplinary collaborative research, and public programming, as well as a range of other support for faculty, staff, students, the general public, and our community partners. 

The IAS contributed an oral history project to the Minnesota Digital Library titled "Hoops and Dreams and the Politics of Racial Resistance and Change in Minneapolis." The project is a collaboration between Professor Doug Hartmann at the University in Minnesota with local journalist and cultural producer Ralph Crowder III. Interviewees include former athletes, current coaches and parents; community-based sport organizers and advocates; and a longtime, Hall of Fame Black sportswriter and reporter.