The Interseminars initiative provides funding and administrative infrastructure for collaborative teaching, sustained interdisciplinary inquiry, and public- and community-facing research in the humanities and arts.
HRI Research Clusters enable faculty and graduate students in the humanities and arts from the University of Illinois to develop questions or subjects of inquiry that require or would be enhanced by collaborative work.
Undergraduate internship with the Odyssey Project, a program through the Humanities Research Institute that offers free college courses to qualifying members of the Champaign-Urbana community.
Provides support for tenure-line faculty in the humanities or related fields who wish to take an existing undergraduate course and re-fashion it as a local community-based research experience.
HRI’s Summer Faculty Fellowships are designed to help faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign maximize the summer in service of their ongoing professional development.
The Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow engages in a research-based project using an interdisciplinary approach to engage audiences beyond the walls of the university. They also maintain a one-year residency with the Odyssey Project.
A one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities as Social Practice, which draws on interdisciplinary arenas of inquiry that have direct impact on contemporary issues.
Interseminars is designed to prepare graduate students to be adept at both navigating and actively shaping the kind of higher education landscapes and cultures they want to see in the 21st century.
HWW’s third Grand Research Challenge will require applicants to build a commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution into their project design that is clearly communicated in their proposal narratives, regardless of the research topic or theme they focus on.
A professional development opportunity for tenured faculty in the humanities to cultivate new ways of thinking and doing humanities-based work on campus and beyond.
The David F. Prindable Internship and the HRI Communications and Outreach Internship are paid internships in communications and undergraduate outreach at the Humanities Research Institute.
Faculty and graduate student reading groups meet regularly throughout the year and may organize public events on topics of interest to a broad range of disciplines.
Seed Grant Funding of up to $2,000 awarded per collaborative team to support proposal development leading up to the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Grand Research Challenge application deadline in November 2022.
A Humanities Without Walls pilot program in which UIUC PhD students use their strengths to make an impact while learning new skills and exploring new career paths.
The Supplemental Event Fund (SEF) is designed to support events centered in the humanities and arts that have significant funding elsewhere on campus and are seeking supplemental co-sponsorship. Funds awarded on a rolling basis.