Humanities Without Walls 2022
Third Grand Research Challenge
The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) consortium invited applications for funding from cross-institutional teams of faculty and graduate students wishing to collaboratively pursue research topics related to the Grand Research Challenge Initiative.
Project period: January 1, 2023–December 31, 2025
Reference: Click to view current and past HWW-funded Grand Research Challenge Projects.
The Grand Research Challenge Initiative
The Humanities Without Walls Grand Research Challenge funds collaborative and interdisciplinary humanities research projects that demonstrate a commitment to methodologies of reciprocity and redistribution. These methods are at the heart of HWW’s work to support humanities scholarship that is truly “without walls”; i.e., research that is not only publicly and community engaged but co-designed by all partners in recognition that expertise is located not just within research universities but also in scholars located in a wide variety of institution types, occupational positions, and communities.
Reciprocity and Redistribution
HWW's aim is to develop sustainable practices which guarantee that equitable, non-extractive structures and ways of working are embedded in intellectual collaborative projects—so that they will occupy a more prominent place in the long-range transformations of academic culture in the humanities to which HWW contributes.
Reciprocity and redistribution are:
- Methods for engaging collaborators in genuinely equal and ethical partnerships that are not unidirectional or faculty-centered (i.e., from campus outward, or hierarchical in ways that privilege presumptively white western scholarly expertise).
- Strategies for equity-based change by design. These strategies aim to challenge the academic status quo by enabling community partners to participate on their own terms, to co-create transformative projects, and to be equitably resourced for their contributions.
- Practices that create new forms of collaboration: between faculty, students, and staff; between HWW consortium universities, regional and community colleges, and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs); and between each campus and its variety of public and community stakeholders.
For more information
For full details on current projects, please visit the Humanities Without Walls website.