The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) is offering up to $10,000 to support collaborative, interdisciplinary, humanities-based research and public programming projects to be implemented in during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Applications are due Friday, March 28, and can be found on the center’s website.
The Center for 21st Century Studies 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.
Collaborative project funding provides 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 generate new ideas and knowledge.
C21 offers two funding tiers for collaborative research projects:
- Collaboratories are collaborative projects developed with a specific project or public outcome in mind. These collaboratives are eligible for up to $10,000 in funding, though most projects receive around $5,000. Awarded funds can be used as seed funding to establish proof-of-concept or complete research legwork to find additional funding or sustainable support structures. Or, funds can support short-term research projects that include a specific public programming component or culminate in a public presentation of some form.
- Working Groups are groups that gather for ongoing discussions, networking, and idea generation. They may be newly formed or pre-existing groups with an ongoing dialogic process or collaborative project. They do not necessarily have to have a fully formed project plan with a final deliverable in mind and are eligible for $500 in support funding.
Further details, eligibility and the online applications can be found at tinyurl.com/C21Collabs2526.
C21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please contact Katie Waddell, C21 managing director, with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.
