Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a mini-grant program and summer institute to help a cohort of up to 6 University of Michigan scholars or teams take an idea for a project and develop a proposal and project plan.
Project ideas can take a broad range of forms, from collecting community interviews to textual analysis of historical documents to providing access to data in interesting ways, such as digital maps or collections. Scholars with collaborative, multi-generational, or community-centered research ideas are highly encouraged to apply. See examples of previously funded projects.
Program details
Awardees will gain a deeper understanding of anti-racist digital research methods and develop a learning community of anti-racist digital researchers and practitioners. Throughout the institute, you’ll work with peers and digital scholarship technical and methodology experts to develop an ethical, sustainable, and justice-oriented digital project proposal and plan.
This program provides:
- $5,000 in project funds to be awarded upon completion of the institute
- Participation in a summer institute with a cohort of peers, along with technical and library staff
- Shared knowledge and understanding of anti-racist digital research methods
- Support for the conceptualization and development of a proposal and/or project plan that can be used solicit funding for the next stage of the project
- Access to library and technical expertise for planning project requirements
- Community-building and other opportunities through NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative
- Affiliation with U-M centers and institutes that align with your project
See more about the support we’ll provide and funding details, including how you can use grants funds and information about possible supplemental funding.
Institute structure
The institute will take place from May through July 2025. Modules of the curriculum and other activities will be spread out over 12 weeks, with an average of 1 to 2 events per week. We will support both in-person and remote participation.
The institute will consist of:
- A 2-day institute kick-off in May.
- 5 sessions (hybrid/remote) with curriculum modules over the course of the institute.
- Opportunities for engagement with cohort peers and project support staff once per week.
We expect the time commitment to be 1 day per week from May to July after the initial 2-day kick-off.
Who is eligible
The institute is open to University of Michigan faculty (tenure track, clinical faculty, lecturers, librarians, archivists, and curators), graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and staff from any U-M campus in the fields of humanities, arts, and the humanistic social sciences.
Application process
Submissions are open from November 11, 2024 through December 20, 2024.
Visit how to apply for information about submitting a project proposal, and how we evaluate them. We plan to announce decisions in late January or early February.
If you have questions about the institute or application process, please email library-ds@umich.edu.