HI | Grants
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:
Research Funding Opportunities: 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.
Research Initiatives:
- Initiative for Digital Humanities (IDH): IDH supports and connects digital humanities research. We offer consultation, seed funding, grant writing assistance, and coordinated programming.
- Intersectional Humanities Initiative (IHI): IHI focuses on graduate student research working groups and emphasizes collaboration and community.
- Humanities, Health, and Medicine Initiative (HHM): HHM serves as a launchpad for humanistically-informed scholarship related to health and medicine.
Proudly Part of the College of Liberal Arts (COLA): HI operates within the College of Liberal Arts, contributing to the vibrant intellectual landscape of UT Austin.
Recent Achievements:
- Mellon Foundation Grant: This grant, awarded to a COLA professor, promotes responsible data work in the humanities by combining cultural studies expertise with training in data management, analysis, and representation.
- Digital Humanities Research Faculty/Staff Project Development Grant: HI collaborates with the Scholars Lab to develop DHResearch, a new initiative featuring licenses for a suite of digital humanities tools.
Grants Management:
The Humanities Institute assists and manages grants with a humanistic focus. Managing Post Award activities, which includes reporting, financial projections, contracting
Contact Us: If you’re seeking research funding opportunities, guidance, or collaboration, contact us. We’re passionate about advancing humanities research and supporting scholars like you.
JEFF MESERVE, Assistant Director of Research Development
The University of Texas at Austin | College of Liberal Arts | Humanities Institute
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
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
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
PI: Monica 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
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
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 bya grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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
Sponsor: National 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
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
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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