The Lifespan Project, one of our four 2024 Proposal Development Grant teams, interrogates the concept of lifespan in things material and immaterial as it looks at the used, rotten, and obsolete; death and grief through three intersecting stories. Composed of undergraduate students in Architecture and English, graduate students from Comparative Literature, and three faculty members from Architecture; AfroAmerican andAfrican Studies; English;…
Category: Proposal Development Grants
Proposal Development Grants provide significant funding during May and June of each year for awarded teams to develop the research question(s) to be answered collaboratively and to put together a cohesive Project Grant proposal. The Collaboratory funds up to four proposals per funding cycle.
I Walk Under the Earth; Lightly in a Cloud of 300,000 Points. A Portal to the Ancient City of Teotihuacán Through LiDAR Surveys, Digital Preservation, and Immersive Storytelling
The center of the Mesoamerican universe lies twenty kilometers northeast of Mexico City in the ancient city of Teotihuacán. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, the site receives 4.5 million visitors annually. The Aztecs called it the place where the gods were created, and it remains Mesoamerica’s cosmological and spiritual heart. As…
Nishnaabeg Team Celebrates Learning Opportunities
Two members of the From Revitalization to Reclamation: Reinforcing Nishnaabeg Language Pedagogy and Indigenous Epistemologies at the University and Beyond Proposal Development Grant team attended The Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) conference in early June. Kayla Gonyon (Lecturer in American Culture, Ojibwe Language) and Skyelar Raiti (Undergraduate Research Assistant) traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, where the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC)…
Do Androids Study Electric Humanities?
AI is everywhere you look these days. What used to only be a part of science fiction books and movies is now helping write papers, draft invitations, produce fanciful images, and even streamline our google searches. However, while AI has shown itself to be a helpful taskmaster, it is not without cause that many of us are ambivalent…
New Proposal Development Grant Teams
The Humanities Collaboratory welcomes four Proposal Development Grant teams for our current grant cycle! I Walk Under the Earth; Lightly, in a Cloud of 300,000 Points. A Portal to the Ancient City of Teotihuacán through LiDAR Surveys, Digital Preservation, and Immersive Storytelling is led by PI Robert Adams from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design. This project seeks to…
Call for Applications: Proposal Development Grants
The Collaboratory is excited to continue funding Project Development Grants in its new phase. Applications will open in December. The Collaboratory invites faculty teams to apply for proposal development grants to fund collaborative project ideas from May – August, 2024. Led by faculty on the Ann Arbor campus, all teams must be intergenerational, involving collaboration with other faculty,…