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
This research group is studying the challenges that generative AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs) pose for the teaching of writing. We come from a variety of perspectives: teaching professors, assistant professors, program directors, W-course faculty, an instructional...
This cluster explores humanistic approaches to AI and its impacts on historic and contemporary notions of human creativity as it pertains to writing, artistic creation, reading and interpretation, translation, and research.
The rapid and expansive adoption of digital policing and border enforcement strategies, often outside of the public eye, make this moment ripe for a critical analysis of the relationship between digital technologies, media, and national borders. The Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster...
Can we imagine an event that contributes to a more sustainable future while providing some advantages that are not possible at a regular annual conference? Those advantages include: increased attendance; more intimate gatherings; a less impacted schedule; reduced costs; and...
Centered around a private collection of film memorabilia accumulated over five decades of travels through South Asian film festivals, this project organizes a scholarly day-long symposium of invited scholars of South Asian cinema who reflect on the collection's research value...
Humankind has already established a firm and growing presence outside the boundaries of planet Earth. Moreover, it is likely that major actors are currently creating path dependencies that will determine the conditions of long-term future, often unknowingly and unintentionally. The...
Faculty and scholars at the University of Washington, through the support from the Henry Luce Foundation, seek to develop a transformational initiative on “Global Asias”. Academic and research units within the UW College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), including the...
Grounding Relations: Indigenous Political Ecologies & Environmental Humanities will develop an edited volume that addresses pressing concerns around climate change, environmental stewardship, and ethical obligations to land, water, and non-human relations in Indigenous Communities. On September 23, 2024 at the...
Passages – Tracing Routes to the Future is a symposium on Northwest Native art that will feature the work and perspectives of leading scholars and Native American/First Nations artists. Together they will discuss trends and recent research on the distinctive...
Software is generally understood as not having a “place,” or, conversely, having a place that does not matter to the way it functions. “Good software” is software that is supposed to run anywhere without glitches and bugs. Yet there is...
Founded in 2019, the TSH has organized regular public lectures with practitioners and scholars of translation, colloquium series and workshops for faculty and students, and curricular initiatives at both undergraduate and graduate levels in translation and translation studies.
This project explores the ways categories of sexual violence challenge or consolidate activist and state power. How, when, and why are systematic modes of sexual and gender-based harm, including those systems that institute sex, gender, and sexuality as categories, are...
Colombian people have long been an important presence within US history and culture. US Colombianidades from the Margins: Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and Regionalism in the Diaspora documents their impacts, and the experiences of diasporic Colombian communities more broadly. We offer a...
Graduate Research Clusters
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 writing and research group aims attention at the “craft” of writing to build a sense of solidarity among those engaged in intensive writing, particularly on theses or dissertations.
The Gender and Sexuality Graduate Research Cluster supports UW graduate students in a range of inquiry into gender and sexuality as social structures shaping institutions, interactions, and identities.
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 Media Conditioning Graduate Research Cluster responds opportunely to recent humanistic reconceptualizations of the boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the natural and the cultural, and the biological and the technological. The Cluster's conceptualization of media resists centering the...
The More-than-Human Worlds Graduate Research Cluster brings together graduate researchers 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, geological formations, and supernatural entities.
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.
The Technology, Labor, and Gender Graduate Research Cluster endeavors to uncover the presence of women in technological workplaces, encompassing realms such as computing, film production, and infrastructural building sites, among others. Through reading groups, workshops, and keynote presentations, we will...
This GRC brings together students from history, English, feminist studies, and other departments to explore influential and contemporary scholarship in cultural diaspora studies.