Indiana Humanities is pleased to offer the Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships, which provide $5,000 stipends to support new humanities research that explores anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana and that considers how Black Hoosiers have responded.

Goals for the Fellowship

• Understand Black Hoosiers’ responses to racial injustice and structural racism through the creative arts and/or involvement with political, economic, social and cultural programs/activities at the neighborhood, city or state level.
• Increase knowledge of Black Hoosiers’ strategies for overcoming racial injustice and structural racism over time.
• Increase the amount and quality of humanities scholarship on the causes and effects of racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana.
• Document and/or analyze the decisions, policies and actions that created racial inequality in the past and/or the present.
• Add or expand the stories of Hoosiers in regional and national historiographies of racial injustice and/or structural racism.
• Increase the use of Indiana-based archives and collections by humanities scholars and researchers.

Timeline

• Application Deadline: April 30, 2023
• Notification: June 16, 2023 (tentative)
• Date Projects May Begin: Upon notification
• Interim Report Deadline: Dec. 31, 2023
• Date by Which Projects Must Be Completed/Final Report Submitted: June 30, 2024

For More Details

Read the call for proposals to learn more about potential topics, requirements, restrictions, eligibility and how to apply.