Office of Research

Call for Concepts: Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice

Limited Submissions

Through its Higher Learning grantmaking area, Mellon invites humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics:

Cultures of US Democracy

Projects that consider the circumstantial conditions that enable US democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society.

Environmental Justice Studies

Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses.

Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge

Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy.

Eligibility and preparation of concepts:

As always, Mellon seeks to support institutions with a demonstrated record of excellence in the humanities, and we particularly welcome concepts from institutions that are minority-serving (MSIs) and/or have not received Mellon funding in the last five years. Faculty at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma in relevant disciplines with related project ideas are especially encouraged to apply.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
  2. CV (not biosketch) of the PI

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Friday, November 17, 2023. If given the go-ahead by the limited submissions review committee, registrations are due to the sponsor 11/30/2023. 

If you are considering applying for this opportunity but have further questions or would like to learn more, please contact Andrew Storms in the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations at as89@uw.edu.

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

2024

Deadlines
11/17/2023 UW Internal Deadline Closed
11/30/2023 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Funding amount

$500,000 ($250,000 - $500,000, with durations of up to three years)

Maximum Number of Applications

9 (3 for Seattle Campus, 3 for Bothell Campus, 3 for Tacoma Campus)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.