The August 20 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac highlighted the Michigan Humanities Collaboratory as an example of how the University of Michigan is one of the top financial supporters of humanities research in higher education.
Author: Sheri L Sytsema-Geiger
Hyecho’s Journey Book Review!
University of Chicago Press The following review appeared in the August 2018 issue of CHOICE. In 724, a teenage Korean monk named Hyecho sailed from China to India on a pilgrimage of almost the entire Buddhist world: from the “eight great” pilgrimage sites of India through present-day Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. When he returned to…
Congratulations Maxim Aleksa!
Congratulations to Maxim Aleksa (BS, RLL & Computer Science, 2017), who currently works as a software engineer at Apple in Cupertino, California. Maxim worked as part of the Africa to Patagonia team in Spring 2017, during the Proposal Development phase (shortly after he completed his BS), to work as a specialized consultant on the aesthetics and narrative behind our Africa to Patagonia Collaboratory website.…
Congratulations Libby Garno!
Congratulations to Libby Garno (BA, Spanish & International Studies, 2016), who has just been awarded a second consecutive Fulbright grant to work as an English Teaching Assistant in Tunja, Colombia for AY 2018-2019. Libby will work as a Senior English Teaching Assistant, with responsibilities such as participating in language teacher training, determining education policy, and assuming managerial responsibilities at the Universidad Santo…
Congratulations Claire Laing!
Congratulations to Claire Laing (BA, Spanish & Linguistics, 2017), who was recently accepted to study the Speech-Language Pathology major in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in the Hunter College Graduate Program (NYC). Claire had a difficult decision when it came to deciding where to pursue graduate work: she applied to the most competitive programs in NYC (where she is from), and…
Congratulations to Colleen Buckley!
Congratulations to Colleen Buckley (BA, Spanish, 2018), who recently accepted a full-time position at Beghou Consulting in Chicago, IL (working as Associate Consultant). Colleen’s first experience with Spanish Linguistics was in Fall 2016, when she took Spanish 298 with Nick Henriksen, PI for the From Africa to Patagonia project. Following, she enrolled in multiple advanced Spanish Linguistics courses…
Hyecho’s Journey featured at the Freer|Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian!
This Fall saw the first project of the Humanities Collaboratory bear a range of remarkable fruit. On December 9, the entire team of Hyecho’s Journey made a trip to Washington, where the eighth-century Korean Buddhist monk Hyecho and his extraordinary journey is a focal point of a major exhibition of Buddhist art, entitled “Encountering the Buddha: Art…
Hyecho’s Journey in LSA Magazine Fall 2017
Hyecho’s Journey is one of the first projects funded by the Humanities Collaboratory. LSA Magazine has highlighted the project in the Fall 2017 issue. Read the story about a mysterious monk, a multi-city research project, and the future of the humanities here. You can also enjoy Hyecho’s Journey through their app, just search on Hyecho’s…
Collaboratory in “Engaged Michigan”
The Humanities Collaboratory is featured in a new website from the Office of the Provost called “Engaged Michigan,” which brings together a range of resources and initiatives that are at the forefront of engaged, collaborative, and interdisciplinary learning and research on campus.
Collaboratory in U-M Leadership Breakfast Remarks
During his 2017 Leadership Breakfast, President Schlissel made note of the Humanities Collaboratory among a set of new campus-wide initiatives that are “helping to unleash faculty creativity in innovative ways.” Schlissel acknowledged the role and importance of project-based, faculty-led collaboration in positioning U-M as a leading site of new knowledge production. 2017 Leadership Breakfast (Remarks)
Argentine Afrikaners Team in the News!
Our proposal development grant team, “Agentine Afrikaners Interrogating Hybridity in a Unique Diasporic Community,” with Nick Henriksen as the PI was highlighted in The Michigan Daily on June 12.
Congratulations to our 2017 Proposal Development Grant Recipients!
We are extremely pleased to announce the following recipients of our proposal development grants. These grants will support the planning and development of projects in May and June 2017. Argentine Afrikaners: Interrogating Hybridity in a Unique Diasporic Community This project will examine the practices of a unique settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, which presents an exceptional situation…
FAST Lecture: A Karanis Collaboratory
The Karanis Project, funded by the Collaboratory, will summarize their study of the ancient village of Karanis in Egypt from multidisciplinary perspectives on Thursday, February 16, 2017 from 4:00-5:00 pm in Auditorium C, Angell Hall. For more information about this research project, please visit their website. FAST lectures are free and open to the public, and sponsored…
Making Projects Accessible
By Stephanie Rosen, Ph.D. Early in the process of seeking support for a collaborative project in the humanities — or any field — researchers must demonstrate the expected impact of that project’s deliverables. This early stage is also the right time to start thinking about accessibility, one important facet of impact. Here, accessibility refers to…
Winter 2017 Digital Scholarship Workshop Series
The University Library is offering three workshops this semester where participants may learn about different aspects of project-based digital scholarship. Please click on the title of each workshop to read their description and register for the session. Digital Scholarship 101: An Overview of Digital Scholarship Tools and Methodology Thursday, 2/9, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Gallery Lab,…
Proposal Development Applications Now Available!
Proposal Development Applications for Spring Term 2017 funding are now available. See the Proposal Development Funding page for guidelines, questions, forms and evaluation criteria.
Collaboration: Is the Pecking Order Doing More Harm than Good?
Margaret Heffernan’s TED Talk Drawing from an experiment with chickens, entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan explains how our cultural obsession with individual success is threatening our potential for collaboration and productivity.
2016-2018 Project Grant Recipients!
The Humanities Collaboratory is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 project grants. Funding of more than $500,000 has been awarded to “Hyecho’s Journey,” an interdisciplinary investigation of the travels of an eighth-century Korean monk, and “Precarity Lab: A Thick Humanities Collaboration on Digital Inequalities,” a study of the inequalities and insecurities generated by…
NEH – The Humanities Laboratory Conference
Humanities Collaboratory Coordinator Peggy McCracken attended a meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington last week entitled “The Humanities Laboratory: Discussions of New Campus Models.” Inside Higher Ed posted the article “Labs are for Humanities, Too” summarizing the discussions and highlighting what various institutions are doing in collaborative humanities research.
Undergraduates and the Humanities Collaboratory
What’s it like to be an undergraduate researcher on a Collaboratory project? Mollie Fox has given an account on the Karanis project blog: An undergraduate in the Collaboratory