ResearchHI-Managed 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:
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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Research
The Humanities Institute takes an expansive view of research in the humanities that generally includes the knowledge, skills, and methods that help people interpret and engage with language, culture, and history via the systematic study of literature, music, theater, film, and media. Research in these areas commonly includes methods such as reading and creative writing and the transmission of humanistic inquiry and scholarship for academia or the public via print, digital, or physical form. For many, the humanities are most often associated with higher education, where the scope narrows to a specific set of disciplines or departments. Yet, the interpretation of the present and past cultures can be multimodal, occuring at museums, historic sites, the theater, the backyard, the basement, the street corner, on a map or in a medial or computer science lab among other venues and situations.
To learn more about research at HI, see the project programs listed below. To learn more about how HI supports research, see Research Funding.