Interseminars Initiative
View the Interseminars archive: Read about the activities and outcomes of past Interseminars projects.
About Interseminars
Responding to the challenges of sustaining interdisciplinary research and teaching in the arts and humanities, the Interseminars initiative began by providing funding and administrative infrastructure for collaborative teaching, sustained interdisciplinary inquiry, and public- and community-facing research in the humanities and arts. Funded by a $2,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, Interseminars makes it possible for faculty and graduate students to undertake significant interdisciplinary research collaborations that will make a lasting impact in their long-term research trajectories and on the development of new research and curricular areas for the campus as a whole.
From 2022 to 2025, the Interseminars initiative supported three 18-month interdisciplinary projects by providing:
- course releases and summer research funds for 2–3 faculty coordinators;
- up to eight graduate fellowships per project (including summer funding);
- and programming funds for a public- or community-facing culminating event (such as a conference, exhibit, or performance).
Now, in the fourth round of funding, the Interseminars initiative is supporting co-teaching grants for interdisciplinary graduate courses. Each faculty team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.
Cohort Information
First Interseminars project (2022–23), “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas”:
Second Interseminars project (2023–24), “Improvise and Intervene”:
Third Interseminars project (2024–25), “Collisions Across Color Lines”:
Fourth Interseminars project (spring 2027), Cross-Disciplinary Courses:
Contact
For general questions regarding Interseminars, please email the Interseminars account. You may also contact members of the steering committee.
Steering Committee Members
Jerry Dávila - Chair, Ex officio (History, Director of HRI)
Toby Beauchamp (Gender and Women’s Studies)
J. David Cisneros (Communication)
Patrick Hammie (Studio Arts)