2021 HWW Seed Grant Recipients

The UIC Institute for the Humanities is delighted to announce Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant awards.  These awards fund humanities projects that demonstrate the Humanities Without Walls themes of reciprocity and redistribution.

“Chicago’s Gang Database: Abolition and Reparations” (click link for event information)
PI:  Andy Clarno, UIC Sociology
with Xanat Sobrevilla, #EraseTheDatabase Campaign

 

“Chicago River Campus”
PI:  Beate Giessler, UIC Art
with Rachel Havrelock, UIC English
Ömür Harmanşah, UIC Art History
Ralph Cintrón, UIC English & Latin American and Latino Studies

 

“The Reciprocal Politics of Bed Space Activism: From Confinement to Radical Care” (click link for event information)
“The Reciprocal Politics of Bed Space Activism: Creative Resistance and Radical World Making”
(click link for event information)
PI:  Patrisia Macías-Rojas, UIC Sociology & Latin American and Latino Studies
with Akemi Nishida, UIC Disability and Human Development & Gender and Women’s Studies
Ronak Kapadia, UIC Gender and Women’s Studies

 

“Amplify Mother Survivors” (click link for event information)
PI: Nadine Naber, UIC Gender and Women’s Studies & Global Asian Studies
with MAMAS Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity and the Campaign to Free
Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture

 

Humanities Without Walls (HWW), based at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is in part a large-scale experiment in thinking about the nature and character of collaboration as a dynamic scholarly practice that has been generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2014. UIC is one of 16 consortium university partners, providing opportunities for UIC faculty to propose multi-institutional Research Challenge projects.

The new Grand Research Challenge will award funding for humanities projects that exhibit a commitment to reciprocity and redistribution in their methodology.  The Call for Proposals in this round will be issued in March 2021. The deadline for proposals is November 15, 2021. Further information on this challenge, including workshop videos and registration for Grant Strategy Workshops, can be found here on the HWW site.