Membership Activity Fund
CHCI is proud to continue offering the Membership Activity Fund, a small grant opportunity for CHCI members to fund inclusive collaborations in the humanities as well as activities with outcomes that benefit our membership. The next deadline is October 6, 2025 and the maximum award amount is $10,000 USD.
Humanities Leaders Mentorship Program
The CHCI Humanities Leaders Mentorship Program is an annual mentorship program for CHCI members, focused on making connections and meeting the everyday challenges of operating centers and institutes for humanities research. The deadline for mentee applications for the 2025-2026 program is September 1.
Global Humanities Institute 2025: Indigenous Mobilities, Tourism, and Racial Capitalism
INDIGENOUS MOBILITIES, TOURISM, AND RACIAL CAPITALISM is a Global Humanities Institute that will explore how Indigenous communities creatively respond to the cascading effects of mega-development projects and mass tourism.
CHCI-ACLS Fellowship
CHCI and the American Council of Learned Societies are continuing a partnership designed to provide opportunities for ACLS fellows in certain programs to spend time in residence at CHCI member organizations.
CHCI-SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
This collaboration between CHCI and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council provides opportunities for SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellows to spend time in residence at CHCI member organizations around the world.
Global Humanities Institutes
With the support of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CHCI launched, in 2017, the Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs), a program for a second generation of international collaboration. Since then, CHCI has funded five different projects on a broad range of themes, involving more than 25 centers and 200 participants from all continents.
Global Humanities Institute 2024: Design Justice AI
DESIGN JUSTICE AI is a Global Humanities Institute that will explore community-centered, humanistic, and interdisciplinary engagement of “Generative AI,” the statistical modeling of human languages, communication, arts, and cultures.
Global Humanities Institute 2023: Global Racisms, Cold War Humanism, and the Imagination of Just Futures
Global Racisms is a Global Humanities Institute that draws on the strong transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement and the compelling responses of global communities across distinct demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on the global reach and relevance of humanistic scholarship on the study of subaltern pasts. (Image: "Utarand," Prabhakar Kamble)
Global Humanities Institute 2023: Post-Extractivist Legacies and Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses
"Post-extractivist legacies and landscapes: Humanities, artistic and activist responses" takes a humanities-centred, transdisciplinary, and transregional approach to analysing the complex legacies and entanglements arising from mining as an extractivist process with massive environmental and socio-political impacts. (Image: Pond Ida-Virumaa Mining District, Judy Carroll Deeley, 2023)
