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...