Call for Applications: Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute

The U-M Library, LSA Technology Services, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative are pleased to announce the next round of our initiative to support digital scholarship that advances work in the areas of anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and social justice.

The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a mini-grant program and summer institute to help a cohort of up to 6 University of Michigan scholars or teams take an idea for a project and develop a proposal and project plan, with $5,000 being awarded to each project upon completion of the institute.

Project ideas can take a broad range of forms, from collecting community interviews to textual analysis of historical documents to providing access to data in interesting ways, such as digital maps or collections. Scholars with collaborative, multi-generational, or community-centered research ideas are highly encouraged to apply. See examples of previously funded projects.

The institute is open to University of Michigan faculty (tenure track, clinical faculty, lecturers, librarians, archivists, and curators), graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and staff from any U-M campus in the fields of humanities, arts, and the humanistic social sciences.

Applications are accepted from November 11–December 20. Learn more about the application on the U-M Library website.