Seed Grants

In fall and spring competitions each year, projects are selected for Seed Grant awards of up to $7,500 for individual researchers or up to $12,000 per team. These grants further advance faculty research and often improve the quality of grant proposals to external funding agencies. The Institute supports those projects that best address its mission and that have strong prospects of receiving external funding.

Spring 2013 Seed Grant Application

Spring 2013 Seed Grant Information

Spring 2013 Seed Grant Workshop PPT

What is a seed grant?
The IHR seed grant program is designed to provide support for projects that advance the
transdisciplinary, collaborative, and issue-focused mission of the Institute and are
intended for sufficient development to be competitive for national grants.

Who is it for?
Seed grant funds are available for junior and senior humanities faculty members and/or collaborative teams involving non-humanists. Up to $7,500 for individual projects and $12,000 for teams may be requested for the purpose of conducting research and developing proposals for submission to external funding agencies. It is expected that with a year of support for planning and research, faculty will enhance the competitive nature of their grant proposals.

What are the outcomes?

• Conferences, symposia
• Invited guest scholars
• Publications
• External grant support
• Curricular impacts

What types of projects are funded?
Projects span a broad range of topics:

• Historic…
  • Social Organization and Regional Interaction on the Yoruba Frontier, Central Nigeria
  • (A.D. 1300-1900)
  • Opening the Geese Book – liturgy compiled for the parish of St. Lorenz, Germany in
  • the early 1500’s
  • City Life: Experiencing the World of Teotihuacan
  • Bodies of Flesh, Bodies of Stone: the Religious Epigraphy of the Tang Dynasty
• …to contemporary
  • Resplendent Quetzal, Transcendent Icon: The Quetzal in Art, Folklore, Literature,
  • Music, Religion and Liberation Movements
  • Religious Encounters at the Intersection of Colonialism and Modernity
  • Current Transformations of Islamic Education in Global and Comparative
  • Perspectives Unlimited geographic locations
• global…
  • Contesting Borders: International Human Rights
  • Art and Ritual in the Creation of a Transnational Refugee Community
  • Seeing Beyond the Seemingly Omnipotent State: Examining the Imperial Russian Self
  • through the Lens of Class, Gender, Nationality
  • Voices for Non-Violence in the Muslim World
• … to local
  • Nature and Culture in the Sky Islands Borderlands (Arizona- New Mexico-Sonora Chihuahua)
  • Transnational Adoption in Arizona
  • Managing Bilingual Identities: Community, Conversation, and Politeness
  • Through the Prism of Race and Ethnicity: Re-imagining and Re-conceptualizing the
  • Religious History of the American West
  • Cultural/Historical Landscapes of Grand Canyon National Park
  • Chicana/o Figurative Visual Art in a Unique Relationship to Mainstream American,
  • Mexican, and Mexican-American Themes & Images
  • Whole Local Slow: Exploration of the Complex Relationships between Food Systems,
  • Bodies, Economies, Ecologies, Cultures
• Multiple disciplinary intersections – humanities and science, art, health, technology
  • Medicine and the Media: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Social Constructions of
  • Health and Illness
  • Interdisciplinary Research: Reporting Medical Information
  • Systems bioethics: A ‘second generation’ approach to biology, society, and human
  • values
  • Oxytocin and Music
  • Girl Talk: An Exploration of Gender, Sexuality, and the Media
  • Building a Legal System for Sustainability
  • echo::system - Mapping Information to Action through Embodied Aesthetic
• Enhanced access to scholarly resources
  • Building an Academic Destination: The ASU Repository of Palm Leaf Manuscripts
  • from Sri Lanka
  • Implementing Open-Source XML-Based Content Management for the Antislavery
  • Literature Project
  • OLA (Online Arizona) – an encyclopedia of the state
  • The Embryo Project
  • Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for the Study of Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts
  • Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: A New Digital Archive