Past Recipients

2025

• Joint Research Project: “The Chip Era and Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies and the Operation of Capital.” CHCI Transit Asia Research Network, International Center for Cultural Studies - National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Launching a three-year joint research project to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interconnections between digital governance, geopolitical dynamics, and societal impacts across diverse regions.
• Hosting an Indigenous Studies Conference at VCU: Indigenous Pasts, Indigenous Futures: The Legacies of Boarding and Residential Schools in the United States and Canada. Humanities Research Center - Virginia Commonwealth University. Organizing an international conference in Q2 2026 to bring scholars, archivists, teachers, and community members together to center the history and literature of residential and boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada, and working towards a global indigenous network.
• Detroit Humanities Network: A Symposium. Humanities Center - Wayne State University. Establishing a network among university centers and outreach offices engaged in public humanities work in the Detroit area and the City of Detroit’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Entrepreneurship.
• Forgetting the Classics? Reimagining Ancient Worlds for the 21st Century. Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Presenting a two-day conference in September 2025 around the theme of “forgetting the classics,” featuring interdisciplinary panels on various aspects of forgetting—especially the creative forgetting that might make possible not only new paths of inquiry, but also fundamentally new modes of understanding what constitutes knowledge within our respective disciplines and what the work of a critical scholar might be.
• Summer Teaching Institute in Reading-Writing Pedagogy. Mandel Center for the Humanities - Brandeis University. Supporting a week-long teaching institute on reading and writing pedagogy in community colleges as well as connecting community college faculty interested in in-depth pedagogy discussions with PhD students interested in learning about the practical realities of teaching at community colleges.
• Gender Activism: Transdisciplinary and Trans-hemispheric Knowledges in Movement Part III- Santiago de Chile. Center for the Humanities - Washington University in St. Louis. Convening international scholars and practitioners in Chile at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) to participate in the co-creation of a publication intended as a model for the integration of a hemispheric perspective on gender activism.

2024

• Foregrounding Africana Pluriversal Health Humanities Knowledge: Reconnection and Reconciliation. Chisomo Kalinga, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Organizing a one-day interdisciplinary symposium which foregrounds inclusivity and sustainability in transdisciplinary Black and Africana medical and health humanities scholarship.
• 2025 Conference of the CHCI Liberal Arts Colleges and Small Universities Network. Christophe Koné, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College. Leading a meeting of the network from May 15-17, 2025, including an access fund for participants from historically underrepresented organizations, such as HBCUs, HSIs, and international institutions beyond the U.S.
• Situating a Benthic Humanities: Composing Knowledges with Nerm (Port Phillip Bay). Killian Quigley, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Organizing a two-day fieldtrip at and from Port Phillip Bay and collaboratively compose a framework for situating a benthic humanities in subaqueous place and in relation to regional, hemispheric, and planetary seabeds.
• Symposium of Deans of Humanities Faculties in the East African Region. Peter Simatei, African Cluster Centre, Moi University. Convening a symposium for deans of humanities faculties in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda, to take stock of the challenges facing humanities in the region, address these challenges, create a platform to foster collaboration, share best practices, and explore new opportunities for the future of humanities education in the region.
• Aspirational Infrastructure Research: Mobilities, Airports, Place (AIR-MAP). Benjamin Linder, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University. Forming a cohort of junior scholars and mid-career colleagues from the Global South to participate in an interdisciplinary two-day symposium examining the politics, imaginaries, and contestations of airports in the Global South, nested within the 5th annual Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) in Seoul, South Korea.
  
• CHCI Public Humanities Network. Nicholas Allen, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia, USA. Supporting the Network’s pre-conference activities for the CHCI Annual Meeting 2024 and their program for the Annual Meeting itself, centering a new award in public humanities leadership.
• Collaborative Writing on Gender Activism: Transdisciplinary and Trans-hemispheric Knowledges in Movement. Stephanie Kirk, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Co-creating a bilingual publication intended as a model for the integration of a hemispheric perspective on gender activism, in partnership with international scholars and practitioners in Mexico City at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.
• Sovereign claims and counterclaims: Transdisciplinary approaches to the study of humanity’s global past. Stefan Amirell, Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Hosting a three-day cross-cultural workshop to explore the different ways in which sovereignty has been conceptualized, understood and exercised in different historical and cultural contexts, tentatively planned for October 2024, at the Swedish Institute in Istanbul.

2023

• 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.
• Transit Asia Research Network, Joyce C.H. Liu, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Launching a new Asia-based CHCI network at the 2023 Summer Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) Institute, Decolonization in the 21st Century.
• ‘What We Brought With Us’ Exhibition, Vanessa Agnew, Academy in Exile. Touring this exhibit which shares the objects that people took with them when fleeing persecution, suffering, and war, with an accompanying symposium on art, exile, border crossing, and resilience at the University of Cincinnati’s Taft Research Center.
• Humanities as Cultural Heritage, Lee Wallace, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), The University of Sydney. Supporting a CHCI delegation to the 21st General Assembly of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) from 4-8 September 2023.
• International Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Poetry—University of Alberta, National Taiwan University, and Ohio State Univesrity. Staging this symposium on the campus of the University of Alberta, September 15-18, 2023, organized by Christopher Lupke, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, and Mark Bender.
• Indigenous Migrations, Tourism, and Ecological Crises: Building Collaborations in Mexico, Bianet Castellanos, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. Conducting a site visit to lay the groundwork for a project on indigenous migrations, tourism, and ecological crises in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
• CHCI Publication and Peer Review Working Group, Nicole Welk-Joerger, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Connecting the membership of CHCI in a larger conversation about the form and function of publishing for humanities centers and institutes.