Upcoming Events
The Humanities Collaboratory is offering its second annual Research Orientation Series beginning in September 2024. This is a series of four events created for new humanities faculty at the University of Michigan. Participants will leave each event with a clearer understanding of the landscape of humanities scholarship funding and armed with contacts to provide help in the process of finding funding. These events are in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President of Research and the LSA Research Office. This years topics will be:
General Introduction to Humanities Research at Michigan,
09/26/2024 3:30pm-5pm
Introduction to Internal Resources for Humanities Scholarship,
10/24/2024 3:30pm-5pm
Introduction to External Resources for Humanities Scholarship,
01/30/2025 3:30pm-5pm
Introduction to the American Council of Learned Societies,
02/20/2025 3:30pm-5pm
Please RSVP here or reach out to us at Collaboratory@umich.edu if you have any questions.
Ongoing Workshops
The Library, LSA ISS and ITS collaborate on an enormous wealth of educational and training opportunities!
Check out offerings on the Teaching and Technology Collaborative website. Examples include:
- Securing your Data in M+Box
- Social Media for Academics and the Schools that Love Them
- Demystifying Creative Commons Licenses
- Finding Funding for Research and Scholarship
- Intro to Digital Collections Using Omeka
- Tech Talk: An Overview of Emerging Technologies in Higher Ed
- Digital Documents: Accessibility Lessons You Never Learned
- Intro to 3D Printing
Past Workshops
Past Workshops Recordings, Slides, and Notes
Tips and Insights on External Grants and Fellowships, 2/9/22
workshop was held on February 9, 2022. This workshop featured a panel with several LSA humanities faculty members who have successfully applied for external funding to support their research. Panelists shared their experiences and strategies for applying for external funding. The funding portfolio of these panelists included, for example, support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Luce Foundation. Links to a recording of the event and the powerpoint slides that were shared are available.
Making Projects Accessible, 06/05/2027
In this workshop, Dr. Stephanie Rosen (U-M Library Accessibility Specialist) and Heidi Steiner Burkhardt (U-M Library User Experience Specialist) introduced the concepts of accessibility and usability to help the 2017 proposal development teams think critically about the goals of their projects, as well as design deliverables that will be usable for a broad range of audiences using a range of technologies. We thank our workshop facilitators for sharing with us their session outline and for adding details to this handout.
Working with Student Research Partners, 12/3-7/2015
We compiled a digest of advice from panelists regarding working with and mentoring graduate students. Our colleagues also had valuable suggestions for working with undergraduates.
Models for Humanities Collaborations, 11/15&20/2015
Many thanks to our panelists Kelly Askew, Kerstin Barndt, Martha Jones, Christopher Ratté, Sidonie Smith, and Robin Queen. This document distills insights from those workshops. Link to the sample MOUs.
Information Sessions, 2015
Access the power point slides from these 2015 information sessions for Humanities Collaboratory Projects.
Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT) 2013-2019
This conference was held annually from 2013-2019. The website contains a wealth of resources from these conference. Visit HILT Conference.