Application Deadline: Friday, December 6, 2024 BACKGROUND A UW System Center of Excellence, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) builds a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Each year, C21 offers fellowships to UWM faculty …
The Mobile Story Cart and Summer Story Team was featured on Spectrum News on July 26, 2023. The feature includes an interview with Story Team facilitator, Jamee Pritchard. Watch it here!
The UWM Report featured the work of the Story Experience fellows from last month’s showcase event. Read more here! Story Experience Fellow applications are still being accepted on a rolling basis. Apply here!
From the NEH: “In this highly competitive funding cycle, NEH funded fourteen percent of the Summer Stipend proposals that it received.” Handley’s “application was selected for support after completing a rigorous three-step review process.”
The Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters program views creative risk-taking as an opportunity for engaging civic dialogue. Each year, the program supports fellows in carrying out projects that mobilize voters and confront “anti-voter attacks.” C21’s Director, Anne Basting, has …
The New York Times podcast First Person explores the diversity of opinions through the stories they originate from. This week, C21 Director Anne Basting discusses her experiences working in a locked Alzheimer’s unit, and how she came up with a …
Humanities Without Walls (HWW) is a program that seeks to invigorate collaborative research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities by fostering interdisciplinary research. We are pleased to announce that UWM History Doctoral Student Matilda Ansah was selected to be a …
Led by C21 Director Anne Basting with Marquette faculty Andrew Kim and Sarah Wadsworth – the Story Experience Program received the President and Chancellor’s Challenge award to address poverty. Learn more about the program and other funded projects in this …
Alannah Ray has been part of C21’s programming cohort for the upcoming 2024 symposia, Trust the Vote. This year, Alannah is one of the 2022 Unstoppable Voters Fellows. Read her spotlight on the Unstoppable Voters website here!
Duke University’s How Artists Work, Now series is focusing on collaboration in the fields of art and health. Basting will be presenting on her award-winning Timeslips project, which brings meaning & purpose into the lives of elders through creative engagement. …