The Center for 21st Century Studies

Building a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time

Fostering innovative research at the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences since 1968. Through fellowships, project support, and programming, the Center provides multiple points of access and honors multiple ways of knowing.

Spotlight

Call for ’25-’26 Research Fellows

DEADLINE: Friday, December 6

Each year, C21 offers fellowships to UWM faculty and academic staff, as well as UW System faculty, that provide the time, space, and collegial support to generate new knowledge and ideas. C21 centers the humanities in its belief that innovation comes from diversity of opinions, disciplines, and experiences.

Applications for the 2025-2026 cohort of C21 Research Fellows is due Friday, December 6, 2024. See current Research Fellows.

Events

News

  • Slow Digest: Matter, Object, Tree
    6.5 Minutes With…Yevgeniya Kaganovich In a new podcast episode of 6.5 Minutes With…, our director, Jennifer Johung, sits down with artist and UWM professor Yevgeniya Kaganovich as she discusses her …
  • Slow Digest: Scholarship
    This week, Slow Digest offers three articles by scholars, or groups of scholars, who explore or reflect on the rewards of slow(ish), interdisciplinary, exploratory, and highly collaborative scholarly practices. …
  • Slow Digest: Cooking
    This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Cooking: Worth its Wait in Flavor One of my core olfactory memories is …
  • Slow Digest: Dystopian Fiction
    This week's edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard Slow Reading When the Sky is Falling: A Testimony to Dystopian Fiction When I …
  • Introducing: Slow Digest
    Slow movements—across food, cities, science, scholarship and more—call attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models, rapid rewards, and short attention …

6.5 Minutes With…C21 Podcast

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.