From 2011-14, C21\u2019s Transdisciplinary Challenge Award encouraged collaborative research projects that brought together 51ÁÔÆæ researchers from our traditional constituencies in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences with researchers from natural, physical, and quantitative social sciences.<\/p>\n
This initiative was designed to prompt researchers from any disciplinary background to think in unexpected and untried ways about working with researchers in disciplines whose methodology, content, and institutional practices are unfamiliar to them. Although this is not the kind of research with which most academics have experience, we are still convinced that this kind of research will become increasingly prevalent and necessary in the 21st century. The aim of this award was not only to generate new research approaches to the complex problems of the 21st century but also to provide models for how researchers from disciplines that do not have a history of collaboration can work together to meet the complex, heterogeneous challenges of the 21st century.<\/p>\n
For the 2014-15 academic year, we awarded a total of $235,000 in funding to two research projects and one semester-long seminar for ten 51ÁÔÆæ faculty fellows:<\/p>\n
Catalyzing Transdisciplinarity: Cancer-Obesity Comorbidity as a Wicked Problem in Urban Milwaukee<\/strong> Transforming Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Security, Mass Incarceration, and Community Health<\/strong> Trandisciplinary Challenge Seminar: LANGUAGE<\/strong> Seminar and Workshop Series<\/strong> The Seminar and Workshop Series included visits from a number of outstanding transdisciplinary researchers from outside of 51ÁÔÆæ, including Oron Catts (Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia), Robert Markley (English, University of Illinois), Irene Klaver (Philosophy, University of North Texas), and Sai Suryan (Community and Environmental Sociology, UW-Madison). These researchers participated in the seminar and worked one-on-one with the Transdisciplinary Fellows to develop research proposals for the 2014-15 Transdisciplinary Challenge project.<\/p>\n 21st Century Voices: Synthesized Speech in the Third Millennium<\/strong> Intention and Attention: Transmodernism and Integration in Human Movement Studies<\/strong> Escaping Flatland: (Re-)Writing the Histories, Geographies, and Borderland Ecologies of Water<\/strong> From 2011-14, C21\u2019s Transdisciplinary Challenge Award encouraged collaborative research projects that brought together 51ÁÔÆæ researchers from our traditional constituencies in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences with researchers from natural, physical, and quantitative social sciences. This initiative was designed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":12182,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n$100,000 in total funding, over one year
\nS. Scott Graham (English)
\nAmy Harley (School of Public Health, Center for Urban Population Health)
\nSang-Yeon Kim (Communication)
\nJoan Neuner (Medical College of Wisconsin)<\/p>\n
\n$85,000 in total funding, over one year
\nAnne Bonds (Geography)
\nLorraine Halinka Malcoe (Public Health)
\nJenna Loyd (Public Health)
\nJenny Plevin (Film)
\nRobert S. Smith (History)<\/p>\n
\nOne-course buyout, Fall semester
\nMarcus Bullock (English, emeritus)
\nNicholas Fleischer (Linguistics)
\nSabine Heuer (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
\nMichael Liston (Philosophy)
\nMargaret Noodin (English, American Indian Studies)
\nBernard Perley (Anthropology)
\nAnne Pycha (Linguistics)
\nAmanda Schoofs (Music)
\nRobert Schwartz (Philosophy)
\nJae Yung Song (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Linguistics)<\/p>\n2013<\/h3>\n
\nOne-course buyout, Fall semester
\nTo assist 51ÁÔÆæ researchers to break out of their professional constraints in order to develop research questions and methods that combine seemingly incompatible disciplines in new and productive ways
\nShannon Chavez-Korell (Educational Psychology)
\nKamran Diba (Psychology)
\nRina Ghose (Geography)
\nS. Scott Graham (English)
\nAmy Harley (Public Health)
\nSang-Yeon Kim (Communication)
\nRina Kundu (Art and Design)
\nSimon Mu (Information Studies)
\nPatricia Torres Najera (Center for Urban Initiatives and Research)
\nNelva Olin (United Community Center)
\nRamin Pashaie (Engineering)
\nNathaniel Stern (Art and Design)
\nMarc Tasman (Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies)<\/p>\n2012<\/h3>\n
\n$200,000 in total funding, over two years
\nYi Hu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Design)
\nShelley Lund (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
\nPatricia Mayes (English)
\nHeather Warren-Crow (Art and Design)<\/p>\n
\n$50,000 in total funding, over two years, to further develop the proposal, find additional scholars to contribute to the project (especially in neuroscience), and to begin pursuing the research
\nWendy Huddleston (Kinesiology)
\nLuc Vanier (Dance)<\/p>\n2011<\/h3>\n
\n$300,000 in total funding, over two years
\nManu Sobti (Architecture and Urban Planning)
\nTimothy J. Ehlinger (Biological Sciences)
\nRyan B. Holifield (Geography)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"