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Grants & Award Management

The Humanities Institute (HI) is a central hub for humanities research at The University of Texas at Austin. We aim to foster, support, and highlight humanities-centered research across various disciplines, communities, and academic levels. Here’s what you need to know:

HI assists researchers in developing, applying for, and administering grants at the highest possible level. Whether you’re a faculty member, graduate student, or undergraduate student, we’re here to guide you through the grant process.

The Humanities Institute assists in preparing and managing grants with a humanistic focus. There are two major aspects involved: Pre-award services involved in preparing proposals, learning about opportunity requirements, submitting proposals via OSP, and getting letters of support as needed. The second aspect is Post-Award activities such as reporting, financial projections, contracting, payments, hiring, and travel.

Below, explore examples of grant-funded projects that the Humanities Institute actively manages and supports.

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Dr. Toyin Falola | Professor; Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities

For a study and policy dialogues on the impact of private universities on public universities in Africa

Sponsor: Carnegie Corporation 
PI: Dr. Toyin Falola
UT COLA | Dept. History


Provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of private universities on public universities in selected countries in Africa through commissioned research and stakeholder engagement.

Support provided by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Dr. Tanya Clement | Associate Professor | Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities

Mobilize, Articulate, Connect, Sustain: MACS-imizing Responsible Information Work in the Humanities 

Sponsor:  Mellon Foundation
PI: Dr. Tanya Clement
UT COLA | Dept. English


To support planning for responsible information workforce development in the humanities.

Support provided by a grant from the Mellon Foundation

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Monica Muñoz Martinez | Associate Professor of History

Meeting the Ongoing, Urgent, Unmet Needs of Uvalde Residents After the Robb Elementary School Shooting

Sponsor: National Institute of Justice
PIMonica Muñoz Martinez; Co-PIs: Noël Busch-Armendariz & Gloria González-López

UT COLA & Steve Hicks School of Social Work | Depts. History & Sociology 

“Meeting the Ongoing, Urgent, Unmet Needs of Uvalde Residents After the Robb Elementary School Shooting," responds to the National Institute of Justice invitation to address the needs of the victims of mass shootings with knowledge and tool development.

Support provided by a grant from the National Institute of Justice
 

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Drs. Julie Minich , Associate Professor, and Alison Kafer, Associate Professor, Director of LGBTQ Studies

The Crip Narratives Collective

Sponsor:  Mellon Foundation
PI(s): Drs. Julie Minich and Alison Kafer
UT COLA | Depts. English and MALS


To support the development of disabled peer mentorship at all academic ranks that offers a model for cross-disability and cross-institutional mentorship and cohort building.

Support provided by a grant from The Mellon Foundation

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Dr. Pramit Chaudhuri Associate Professor of Classics 

Computational tools for diachronic and cross-cultural study of literature: multilingual stylometry and phylogenetic profiling

Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities
PI: Dr. Pramit Chaudhuri
UT COLA | Dept. Classics and Comparative Literature


To support: The extension of a textual analysis tool kit for stylistic and authorship studies that was originally developed for Latin and ancient Greek to now include capabilities for working with Old English and Bengali resources.

Support provided by a grant from the  National Endowment for the Humanities

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Dr. Tanya Clement | Associate Professor | Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities

AVAnnotate - Phase II

Sponsor:  Mellon Foundation
PI: Dr. Tanya Clement
UT COLA | Dept. English


To support the further development of software to make audiovisual collections of cultural heritage materials more discoverable and accessible. 

Support provided by a grant from The Mellon Foundation

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Dr. Danny Law | Associate Professor
Director, Linguistics Research Center

MAYALEX: A comparative lexical database of early Mayan languages

SponsorNational Endowment for the Humanities
PI: Dr. Danny Law
UT COLA | Dept. Linguistics


Project Description: The expansion of an existing digital infrastructure for Indo-European languages to include creation of a set of linked online etymological dictionaries for early Mayan languages.

Support provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
 

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Dr. S. Scott Graham | Associate Professor & Interim Associate Director for Humanities, Health, and Medicine

A Network Science Approach to Conflicts of Interest: Metrics, Policies, and Communication Design

Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences 
PI: Dr. S. Scott Graham
UT COLA | Dept. Department of Rhetoric & Writing 


The primary purpose of this project is to develop new metrics and mechanisms for the evaluation of conflicts of interest (COI) risks in the biomedical research enterprise.

Support provided by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences 

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Dr. Tanya Clement | Associate Professor | Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities

The Spokenweb: Conceiving and Creating a Nationally Networked Archive of Literary Recordings for Research and Teaching

Sponsor: Concordia University
PI: Dr. Tanya Clement
UT COLA | Dept. English


The SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb partnership aims to develop coordinated and collaborative approaches to literary historical study, digital development, and critical and pedagogical engagement with diverse collections of literary sound recordings from across Canada and beyond.

Support provided by a grant from SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb Partnership and  Concordia University & Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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Dr. Heather Houser | Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature

New Directions Fellowship: Reproduction Amid Climate Crisis

Sponsor:  Mellon Foundation
PI: Dr. Heather Houser
UT COLA | Dept. English


To support a New Directions fellowship for Heather Houserto support a New Directions fellowship for Heather Houser.

Support provided by a grant from The Mellon Foundation

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