Working Group on Advancing Arts & Humanities

Sponsored by the Office of Research, the Working Group on Arts & Humanities is a collaborative team of faculty striving to develop and articulate a strategic approach to enhancing arts and humanities research, scholarship, and creative production system wide. Led by Faculty Fellow Ashley Boyd (English), members of the 2023–2024 Working Group are:

  • Chris Dickey (Music)
  • Joe Hedges (Art)
  • M.A. Miller (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
  • Vanessa Cozza (English)
  • Steven Fountain (History)
  • Eliseo Ortiz (Digital Technology and Culture)
  • Samuel Ginsburg (Languages, Culture, and Race)
  • Johanna Phelps (English)
  • Jacqueline Wilson (Music)

The group’s goals include engaging with multiple stakeholders to define a set of activities and outcomes to enhance Arts & Humanities and to lead multiple types of engagements with faculty.

We will be hosting a series of events to meet these goals and expand the conversation around Arts & Humanities at WSU paired with a funding opportunity in support of work in the Arts & Humanities.

Events

Interdisciplinary Dialogues

In Spring 2024, the Working Group on Arts & Humanities hosted two Interdisciplinary Dialogues, bringing together diverse voices on topics critical to our society. Multiple similar events are planned for the 2024–2025 academic year, more details are coming soon.

Arts & Humanities Showcase

On April 10th, 2024, the Working Group on Arts & Humanities hosted an Arts and Humanities Showcase to highlight the research, scholarship, and creative production of WSU faculty. Stay tuned for more information on the 2025 Arts and Humanities Showcase in Spring.

Arts & Humanities Process Grants

As part of the Arts & Humanities Initiative, competitions will be held for funds to support faculty’s needs for research, scholarship, and creative activity. The grants are intended to support smaller items needed such as: materials, printing, tools, software, permissions, services (transcription or translation), event support, marketing, participant stipends, etc. Travel is not an eligible expense. Grants are open to all faculty engaged in work based in the Arts & Humanities, regardless of track, campus, or unit. We especially encourage faculty of color, queer, trans, gender non-binary, working-class and other underrepresented individuals to apply.

Recipients will share a 3-minute flash talk during an event in Fall 2024.

Proposals for the Fall awards are open and will be due September 20th. For questions about the Arts & Humanities Process Grants, email or.orap.servicedesk@wsu.edu.

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