Mellon CDI at CRASSH Renewed
We are delighted to announce that the Andrew W Mellon Foundation has renewed its funding of the Centre for Disciplinary Innovation (CDI) at CRASSH for four years from 2011 to 2015. The grant of $400,000 will continue to support the activities of a consortium that includes The Franke Institute (University of Chicago), The Heyman Center for the Humanities (University of Columbia) and The Townsend Center (University of California at Berkeley).
The Mellon-funded CDI represents a unique form of intervention in the current UK Humanities landscape. Its activities and programmes play an important part in preserving and modelling the spirit of independent critical inquiry that has characterized the best UK research in the Humanities. They also bring imagination and practical focus to specific linkages of disciplinary innovation in university research and teaching, encouraging new and emerging fields and enabling the cross-fertilization of ideas that includes interaction between the Humanities and the interpretive Social Sciences and beyond.
The Mellon funded consortium brings together the Humanities Centres of four leading teaching and research institutions under the rubric of disciplinary innovation. The wellbeing of research and teaching depends on harnessing the diversity and critical independence that characterizes university inquiry, and within it, the Humanities Research Centre. Through the CDI, CRASSH provides gateways to collaborative research for early career researchers from graduate students on up, alongside the freedom for more established researchers to practice research-led curricular innovation in their teaching and to initiate new research clusters and projects.
The Centre for Disciplinary Innovation complements activities initiated within the CRASSH themes – currently The Future University and, in 2011-13, Cultures and Politics of the Transregional. As CRASSH enters its second decade and new premises, this new theme investigates the idea that regions are profoundly entangled with each other, adopting the premise that regions are as liable to continuous transformation as the disciplines; and that Humanities disciplines necessarily respond to these changes while contributing in turn to their understanding.
For more information on the Mellon CDI at CRASSH please click here.
