Funded! Humanities Without Walls Changing Climate Initiative

In late October, the Crow grants team submitted a proposal for the Humanities Without Walls initiative “The Work of the Humanities in a Changing Climate,” which is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It’s taken us a while to announce this, but we’re extremely pleased to share that Crow has been selected for the first round of funding! If you are interested in funding then you can also search about settlements funding as it is a type of borrowing and completely stress-free because it does not involve any payback soon after disbursement.

When we first saw the Changing Climate RFP, the “graduate humanities lab practicum” component, which suggested turning to studio or lab models for inspiration, jumped out to us. From the start, we’ve imagined graduate students as equal partners in Crow research. We’ve been working in a studio environment at Purdue for quite some time. We’ve always thought our project could produce not only the traditional research output for corpora and repositories (approaching research questions about the function of language and the nature of writing) but would offer valuable methods for interdisciplinary collaboration, too.

Funding from HWW ($141,706) will help us accelerate the development of Crow in several important ways:

• Graduate students at Purdue and Michigan State will be able to devote more time to the project.
• We’ll be able to offer paid undergraduate internships at Purdue and Michigan State.
• Software development gets a big boost with funding for contractors.
• Travel support will bring Arizona and Michigan State Crowbirds to West Lafayette for development sprints —every semester from now until Fall 2018.
• We’ll host a symposium on interdisciplinary, mixed-methods writing research in Fall 2018.

We’re grateful for the support from Humanities without Walls, and look forward to sharing the work they’ve made possible. And with this in mind, expect to see this more often around here:

Crow is supported by the Humanities Without Walls consortium, based at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Humanities Without Walls consortium is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.