Current Projects
Below you'll find the webpages for all our currently funded projects. For previously funded projects, you can visit our project archive. Click on Support & Funding above for information about how to apply for project funding.
Faculty Research Collaborations
Cultural Analytics (CA) has recently emerged as a multidisciplinary field focused on the use of data-driven and computational methods to study contemporary and historical cultural materials. This project supports the Cultural Analytics Research and Teaching Initiative (CARTi), a network of...
Despite the fact that sports are ubiquitous in everyday life, both in the United States and around the world, surprisingly little critical scholarship takes global sport seriously as a site of inquiry. Instead, global sport is often viewed in academia...
More than a century ago at the end of World War I, the Allied powers—led by the British empire, the US empire, the French empire, and the Japanese empire—carved up the world, claiming authority over lands and peoples formerly ruled...
This cluster explores the application of relational, interdisciplinary methodologies to the study of cultural memory and its contestation at the nexus of nationalism, colonialism, and historical catastrophes. For the 2024-2025 academic year, our programming centers issues of relational memory in...
The UW's three campuses host multiple writing contexts, including first-year composition, writing across the curriculum, multilingual composition, and dual-enrollment. These distinct campus programs are linked by projects focused on antiracist and equity-oriented teaching and learning. This initiative will support collaboration...
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in US v. Skrmetti upheld new laws in 23 states criminalizing the provision of healthcare to people with a gender dysphoria diagnosis. These bans on trans healthcare are the first such laws in history. The...
Wetlandia is a two-day symposium and workshop that attempts to systematically rethink the wetland as an analytic constituted by far more than nature. Often located at ocean/river/land boundaries, wetlands serve as homes to a rich collection of flora, fauna, and...
Graduate Research Clusters
CMEMS seeks to foster collaboration between disciplines on topics concerning Classical and Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern period by bringing together classicists, medievalists, and early modernists from diverse departments on campus and in the community. We...
This research cluster seeks to leverage environmental expertise at UW toward collaboration among graduate students of the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of the Environment. Together we will build conversation across the environmental humanities (studying how human...
In our collaboration, we are collaboratively seeking solutions to the problems we observe in Eastern Europe (including Russia) and Central Asia, and within their diasporas abroad. We are developing action-oriented scholarship that is grounded in ethical principles and critical epistemologies...
The Digital Humanities Reading & Research Cluster brings together graduate students from across various humanities disciplines to explore how digital tools and computational methods can enhance humanistic inquiry. This interdisciplinary group fosters a collaborative space for the participants to engage...
The group has met on campus for more than thirteen years and currently hosts events that reach both academic and non-academic audiences, fosters collaboration and camaraderie among students, and promotes connections between students and faculty.
This cluster supports immigrant, refugee, and undocumented (IRU) graduate students conducting local, community-based research in the U.S. Facing legal, cultural, and institutional barriers, IRU students often struggle to participate in local organizations. Our research cluster creates a supportive space for...
This Graduate Research Cluster explores settler colonialism theory, anticoloniality, Indigenous resurgence, and Indigenous feminisms, seeking to create community in the interdisciplinary space of Indigenous Studies.
The second iteration of the More-than-Human Worlds Graduate Research Cluster seeks to bring together graduate students from different departments whose work turns its attention to a range of more-than-human actors, including but not limited to: animals, plants, bacteria, viruses, technology...
This GRC invites researchers and allies engaging in QueerCrip-themed work who are passionate about creating community, collaborating on interdisciplinary research, peer mentoring, resource sharing, and creative strategizing to ensure our research benefits the communities we serve.
This Graduate Research Cluster brings together graduate students studying queer and transgender issues in global contexts beyond North America and Europe. Focusing on inclusive and collaborative research methods, the group explores how gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, caste...
The UW Graduate Aging Group is an interdisciplinary, graduate student research cluster that aims to foster a community of scholars interested in aging research. United by understanding aging as a multidimensional phenomenon, the group engages with concepts, theories, and perspectives...