C21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges.
Collaboratory funding is an opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines, across university and community partnerships, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to inspire the generation of new ideas.
Our annual call for collaboratories is typically published in February. Applications are accepted through March, and decisions are announced in April for the following academic year.
Collaboratory Events
Current Collaboratories
This collaboratory explores how public-facing programming influences individuals’ empathy and understanding of issues related to de-carceration and re-entry into society after incarceration.
The Muslim Milwaukee Project aims to further understanding of the Muslim communities in the Milwaukee area, to challenge anti-Muslim racism, and to build networks among community members who share these goals.
Current Working Groups
The Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group offers scholars from a wide swath of disciplines and departments a forum in which to focus on recent scholarship concerning Asia.
The Digital Cultures Collaboratory supports research into digital and analog games and other forms of online culture, by graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni.
Reproductive Justice aims to create a space where researchers at UWM and reproductive justice community advocates in Milwaukee can work together to address systemic injustices.
The Trauma, Truth, and Treatment (T3M) Working Group provides an interdisciplinary forum to examine how narratives of trauma and violence intersect with the medicalization of mental health, with a focus on fostering slower, more nuanced, and survivor-centered approaches to care.