Past Programs
CHCI supports a wide array of initiatives, including multiyear, international collaborative research projects, global institutes and workshops, and fellowships for scholars at member institutions.
Global Humanities Institutes
With the support of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CHCI launched, in 2017, the Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs), a program for a second generation of international collaboration. Since then, CHCI has funded five different projects on a broad range of themes, involving more than 25 centers and 200 participants from all continents.
Membership Activity Fund
CHCI is proud to continue offering the Membership Activity Fund, a small grant opportunity for CHCI members to fund inclusive collaborations in the humanities as well as activities with outcomes that benefit our membership. The next deadline is February 28, 2025 and we are increasing the maximum award amount to $10,000 USD.
Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging (RelSec)
From 2013 to 2015, the RelSec project centered on mutually coordinated research projects that investigated how religious and secular formations organized the practices of political belonging across the globe.
Humanities for the Environment (HfE)
The HfE project emerged out of an existing CHCI member network to address questions about the role of the humanities in the Age of the Anthropocene. Six CHCI member organizations established three research observatories on three continents to explore the fundamental question of what it means to be human within a moment of planetary crisis.
Medical Humanities Network (MedHum)
This program aimed to further the development of medical humanities as a subject of study. From 2014 to 2017, six partnering CHCI member conducted specific research on aging, undergirded by collaborative reflection on issues of evidence, value, and evaluation.
Integrative Graduate Humanities Education Research and Training (IGHERT)
From 2014 to 2017, this project brought together faculty, doctoral students, and post-doctoral scholars in a series of structured collaborations to undertake jointly mentored, international research.