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Announcing the 2025-26 Centers + Institutes Award Recipients

April 15, 2025

Announcing the 2025-26 Centers + Institutes Award Recipients

The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2025-26 Centers + Institutes Grants competition. This funding enhances the university’s capacity for cross-disciplinary research, creative expression, teaching and outreach by newly building on centers’ and institutes’ existing strengths to foreground the transformative role of the arts and humanities in the twenty-first century.

2025-26 Award Recipients

Centers + Institutes Awards

  • Emancipatory Linguistics at Ohio State
    Dir. Octavian Robinson (Center for ASL and Deaf Equity) • Asst. Dir. Kristin Wickham-Saxon (Assistant Professional Practice Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Center for ASL and Deaf Equity)
     
  • Environmental History Initiative at The Ohio State University
    Dir. Nicholas Breyfogle (Goldberg Center) • Jennifer Eaglin (History)
     
  • Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Multi-ethnic Cultural Production in the Middle East
    Dir. Kathryn Joyce (Center for Ethics and Human Values) • Dir. Hannah Kosstrin (Melton Center for Jewish Studies) • Dir. Joy McCorriston (Middle East Studies Center) • Asso. Dir. Aaron Yarmel (Center for Ethics and Human Values)
     
  • Proposal for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI
    Dir. Merrill Kaplan (English; Center for Folklore Studies) • Dir. Barry Shank (Comparative Studies and Humanities Institute)
     
  • Religion and Psychedelics: Critical, Cross-Cultural, and Cross-Disciplinary
    Hugh B. Urban (Comparative Studies) • Dir. Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies, Center for the Study of Religion)
     
  • Together We Are FREE: Feminist Community Engagement in Research and Teaching
    Guisela Latorre (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Alison Norris (College of Public Health Epidemiology) • Mytheli Sreenivas (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) • Mary Thomas (Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies)

Summer Institute Award

  • Desde el Principio: Engaging Parents in their Children’s Learning
    Collaborator: Eugenia Costa-Giomi (School of Music) • Asst. Dir. Leila Vieira (Center for Latin American Studies)