The Humanities Centers Initiative (HCI) Fellowship is an innovative statewide partnership between HNY and a network of humanities centers based at nine New York State universities. Launched in 2012, the Fellowship supports humanities institutes, faculty, and graduate students in their commitment to public engagement.
Frequency
Annual
Applications
Currently paused
Grant Amount
$4,000 or $8000, depending on university
Eligibility:
- Graduate students enrolled in humanities programs at a NYS partnering institution (see below).
Application Requirements:
- An abstract and description of project;
- List of project partners and collaborators;
- Project plan with projected dates;
- Budget (using template provided in application);
- CV of project director and key collaborators, if applicable.
Rochester University PhD student Elisabeth Genter Montevecchio’s 2023 exhibit at the Lorenzo State Historic Site showcased items in the museum’s collection produced by the families that lived there. The exhibit highlighted the artistry of nineteenth– and early twentieth–century women and included an interactive element, with guests encouraged to write about or draw examples of historic objects passed down through their own families. Montevecchio was frequently on–site to provide community lectures and tours.
Additional Documents
As of February 2025, this opportunity is currently paused.
Additional details regarding eligibility, requirements, deadlines, budget, and project team members’ qualifications are available upon request. Please contact [email protected] to receive more information.
With the goal of increasing accessibility to knowledge held in academic institutions, Syracuse University PhD student Chelsea Bouldin’s So be it; See to it: An Archiving Project was a community–based initiative in that leveraged historical research and speculative fiction literature as models for activating imagination. The project maps not only our present selves, spaces, and histories but also the futures we dare to envision. Drawing heavily from the Octavia E. Butler archives at the Huntington Library, it fostered connections across histories, communities, and identities.
University Partners
Binghamton University
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Wendy Wall, Director
Associate Professor of History
The City University of New York
The Center for the Humanities
Kendra Sullivan, Director
Columbia University
Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities
Eileen Gillooly, Director
Associate Faculty of English and Comparative Literature
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities
Durba Ghosh, Director
Professor of History
State University of New York at Buffalo
Humanities Institute
Elizabeth Otto, Director
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History
New York University
The Center for the Humanities
Ulrich Baer, Director
Professor of German and Comparative Literature
Jane Tylus, Founding Director
Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature
Miki Kaneda, Associate Director
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Humanities Institute
Michael Rubenstein, Director
Associate Professor of English
Syracuse University
Humanities Center
Vivian May, Director
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
The University of Rochester
Humanities Center
Peter Christensen, Director
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art and Art History
Tanya Bakhmetyeva, Associate Director
Professor of History
