In its second year, “The Humanities Respond to Global Challenges” is a seed program to support up to two teams of five (5) UW-Madison faculty to develop new humanistic and descriptive social scientific projects that take a collaborative, multiple-PI, and cross-disciplinary approach to global challenges, both enduring and emerging. Potential topics may include peace and social justice; climate change, environmental justice, and sustainability; migration, immigration, and translation; democracy and authoritarianism; the history, culture, and politics of sport; the role of humanities and artistic creative practices in health and well-being; and security, privacy, and surveillance.
Funded by the College of Letters & Science (L&S) – including the Arts and Humanities division and the Collective for Research Impact and Social Partnerships (CRISP) – and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE), this seed program will provide each team of researchers with support for developing their collaborative project. Awardees will be determined through an internal competition. Preference may be given to UW-Madison humanities-based projects that include at least one researcher in the social, natural, or computer sciences or in the creative arts; show a concrete plan for demonstrating impact (incl. collaborating with community partners and other external stakeholders as well as producing both scholarly and public-facing publications); and identify concrete and viable sources for funding the research (esp. the NEH, NSF, NIH, Mellon Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, and other major funding agencies).
For more information see the full Call for Applications.
Deadline: March 7, 2025, 5:00 pm CST. Applicants will be notified of the results of the internal competition by March 29.