“Thinking on a New Model of Mentorship and Advising” formed to contend with “challenges posed by dominant models of student advising in doctoral education” and to “[begin] a collective reckoning with individual narratives—the underlying etiology of harassment and other forms of power abuse within graduate programs.”
Category: 5×5 Incubator Grants
Designed to spark compelling conversations, 5×5 Incubator Grants bring together small groups of faculty, lecturers, research scientists, librarians, curators, post-docs and other university scholars from a range of fields for a short-term engagement in exploring common research interests. These grants are supported by a generous collaboration with the Institute for the Humanities.
The Carceral State
The Carceral State Project launched an initiative at the University of Michigan to encourage and increase collaboration among U-M scholars who are investigating the historical roots, contemporary manifestations, and legal and political debates surrounding mass incarceration, policing, and criminalization broadly defined.
The James Baldwin Archive and Interdiscipinary Digital Humanities
This 5×5 Incubator Grant team came together to discuss various implementations of widely-conceived humanities literacy, and specifically its intersections with social space, race, class, gender, queer sexuality, activism, and national identity.
Disability, Space, and Surveillance
Disability, Space, and Surveillance explores substantive connections, prepares future collaborations, and generates new insights for scholarly trajectories on a range of topics including technologies of surveillance, mental illness, psychiatric incarceration, reproductive injustice, and disability culture.
Museums, the City, Publics, and Research
How do publics participate in shaping the future of the city? How do museums, in particular, contribute to the possibility for this participation and re-envisioning? To what extent does the curation of established museums, often in the city center, contribute to the appearance of inaccessibility? How might other kinds of museums contribute to a re thinking?