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.
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 income eligible residents 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.
A Humanities Without Walls program in which UIUC PhD students use their strengths to make an impact while learning new skills and exploring new career paths.
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 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.