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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.

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)

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…

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…

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 for Spring Term 2017 funding are now available. See the Proposal Development Funding page for guidelines, questions, forms and evaluation criteria.

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…

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.

The Humanities Without Walls consortium invites applications for funding from cross-institutional teams of faculty and graduate students wishing to collaboratively pursue research topics related to “The Work of the Humanities in a Changing Climate.” The new research initiative seeks proposals for collaborative research in the field of environmental humanities, as well as the development of new humanities-centered…

We are excited to announce a collaboration between the Humanities Collaboratory and Institute for the Humanities! The two units have teamed together to offer a one-year alternative career post-doctoral internship.  This is a year-long opportunity commencing in summer 2016 through June, 2017; specific timing to be negotiated.  50% appointment each in the Institute for the…

Decisions on the first round of proposal developments grants awarded by the Collaboratory were communicated to recipients on Wednesday, February 24.   We were especially pleased to be able to support five (5) projects.  Congratulations to the following projects and teams: Audio Visual Africa; Kwasi Ampene PI, Associate Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies…

The Humanities Collaboratory was featured in an interview with Peggy McCracken on Michigan Radio January 18, 2016.  Listen to The Next Idea, a segment of Stateside, devoted to the new innovations and ideas that will change our state.

Sidonie Smith’s forthcoming book, Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in “Good Enough” Times (University of Michigan Press, 2015) is available through open access.  The print version is expected to be released in early 2016.

Recent articles on research and education in the humanities broadly and specifically on U-M’s campus will be posted here from time to time.