Workshops
Rackham sponsors an ongoing program of interdisciplinary workshops, which is overseen by Associate Dean Catherine Sanok. This program has two goals. First, it is designed to encourage exchange and collaboration among graduate students, faculty, postdocs, and staff who share intellectual interests but do not necessarily have an easily available forum in common because they have different academic affiliations. Second, it is designed to help advanced doctoral students form working groups that support the development of research projects and dissertation writing.
Graduate students interested in forming such groups may apply for funding to support workshop activities and to compensate coordinators. A maximum amount of $5,000 may be requested if the application is submitted by July 21, 2023, 11:59 PM (EDT) and is for the upcoming academic year. A maximum of $2,500 may be requested if the application is submitted by January 4, 2024, 11:59 PM (EST) and is for the current academic year. Workshops will receive funds at the end of the year after successful submission of the year-end report. Funding is for one year only, but continuing workshops may apply for renewal. Funding not used by the end of the academic year cannot roll over to the next academic year. Notice will be posted here if funds are exhausted and proposals are no longer being accepted.
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops
- Alamanya: Transnational German Studies
- American Institutions Group
- American Politics (IWAP)
- American Religion
- American Studies Consortium
- Anti-colonial and Environmental Justice (ACEJ)
- Art and the Environment Workshop (ArtEco)
- Assocation of Multicultural Scientists (AMS) - Workshops
- Black Queer Studies
- Black Research Roundtable
- Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar
- Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory
- Collaborative Archaeology Workgroup
- Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop (CSAAW)
- Conflict and Peace, Research and Development
- Critical Contemporary Studies
- Critical Ethnic and Asian Pacific Islander American Studies
- Critical Organizational Studies Forum
- Critical Visualities Workshop
- Cuban and Cuban Diaspora Studies
- Doing Queer Studies Now
- Drama and Performance Interest Group
- Early Modern Colloquium
- Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy (ESPA)
- Eurasia Collective
- European History
- Forum on Research in Medieval Studies (FoRMS)
- Foundations of Modern Physics
- Global Postcolonialisms Collective
- Health, History, Demography, and Development (H2D2)
- Interdisciplinary Working Group on Innovation in Survey Methodology
- Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)
- Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race, Ethnicity and Politics (I-REP)
- Islamic Studies Seminar
- JSIC 2020-21
- Knowledge, Information, and Society
- Language and Rhetorical Studies Group
- Latinx Studies Workshop
- Law and Society
- Marxisms Collective
- Michigan Interactive and Social Computing
- Michigan University-Wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Workshop
- Migration & Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop
- Mind & Moral Psychology Working Group (MMP)
- MiSciWriters
- Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenian Studies (MWAS) 100716
- Neural Networks
- Planning and Architecture Research Group (P+ARG)
- Poetry & Poetics Workshop
- Political Communication Working Group
- Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy Working Group
- RELATE
- Roman Republic Reading Group
- Rummage: Museums, Exhibitions, and Representation
- Rural America
- Science & Policy Initiative for Research Engagement - InSPIRE
- Science And Technology Studies
- Southeast Asian Studies
- The China Reading Group
- The Circulo Micaela Bastidas Phuyuqawa
- The Nineteeth Century Forum
- Topics in Classical Intersectionalities
- Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Racism & Health Inequalities (RacismLab)
- Translational Neural Engineering
- University of Michigan Ancient Philosophy Working Group
- Women of Color & The Academy: Exploring Race, Research, Representation
- Workshop for Integrating and Discussing Topics in Healthcare
- Writing Romance Studies
- Political Ecology Workshop