Supporters: The Hershey Family Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities Fund; and the Office of the Dean, School of Arts & Sciences; Sunnie Baron Freeman, Richard G. Kauffman, Robert and Susan Kettrell, and Michael Rissinger.

Collaborators & Cosponsors, Penn: Penn Libraries; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Penn Museum; Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities; Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art; Penn Green Campus Partnership; Annenberg Center; African-American Resource Center; McNeil Center for Early American Studies; Middle East Center at Penn; LGBT Center; Penn's Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program; Center for Africana Studies, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research; Departments of Africana Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, History, History and Sociology of Science, History of Art, Music, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Philosophy, Portuguese, South Asia Studies, Spanish; Programs in American Sign Language, Asian American Studies, Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Jewish Studies, Theatre Arts; Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism; Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group; Association of Queer International Students; Slavics Without Borders; Penn Lens.

Cosponsors, Community: International House Philadelphia; Library of the American Philosophical Society; Rare Book School, University of Virginia; Mütter Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art.