Membership Activity Fund Recipients
We are proud to announce the six recipients of funding from the CHCI Membership Activity Fund. The amount of funding totaled $38,000 and is derived from our membership dues and our current Mellon grant focused on global inclusive collaborations.
- CHCI Liberal Arts Colleges and Small Universities Network (LACSU) 2024 Conference. Christopher Grobe, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Amherst College. Supporting LACSU’s April 25-27, 2024 conference including an access fund for underrepresented institutions and participants.
- Humanities in the Regions. Kylie Message-Jones, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. Supporting a regional Community of Practice that contributes to disadvantaged scholars, institutions, and communities across regional Australia and to make an intellectual contribution to the emerging global field of critical regionalism.
- Humanities as the Common Wealth of Kentucky (HCWK). Mary P. Sheridan, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, University of Louisville. Gathering humanities educators from Kentucky’s eight state universities and build productive relationships with humanities programs across the state.
- Our History of Living with Water: A Tale of Two Cities—Venice and Miami. Sara Agnelli, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere University of Florida. Conducting a three-day center visit and workshop to Venice from April 10-12, 2024 to lay the groundwork for future collaborations and a prospective joint virtual project on the history and future of rising sea levels and environmental and cultural resilience.
- 100 Years of Citizenship: The Indian Citizenship Act (1924), Sovereignty, and Native Rights. Cristina Stanciu, Humanities Research Center, Virginia Commonwealth University. Creating an access fund for BIPOC graduate and junior faculty participation during this mid-2024 international symposium.
- CHCI Critical Humanities Spaces Network, ‘Creating Utopic Spaces: Interruptions, Eruptions, Disruptions.’ Maurits van Bever Donker, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. Supporting a two-day workshop on utopia as a critical practice and as a propositional practice, tentatively set for September 2024.
The Membership Activity Fund is a small grant opportunity open twice a year for funding proposals from CHCI member centers and institutes. This fund supports our membership in two core goals:
- Supporting inclusive collaborations among CHCI members and their partners, and
- Supporting activities with outcomes that will benefit our membership.
Read more about the program, including guidelines to apply for the next cycle, at its program page. The next deadline is March 4, 2023.