Call for Proposals

We invite faculty members, staff, curators, and graduate students to apply for funding to support collaborative initiatives in the arts, humanities and social sciences that bridge academia and the wider community. Priority will be given to proposals that include members of the Anthropology Department and/or the Maxwell Museum as project directors, collaborators, or consultants. We support fully-developedcollaborative projects. The amounts available will be updated with the 2027 call for proposals. 

Proposals may include but are not limited to lectures, museum exhibits, creative works, workshops, conferences, and research and creative projects that focus on material culture and oral history, environment and climate change, education,language use and reclamation, food, health, or any other topic of interest to participating communities.

Faculty, staff, and graduate students from other programs on campus may apply for awards. Ortiz will provide matching funds for projects, to establish and solidify partnerships and research priorities, to complete a project already in place, or to initiate a longer-term project. 

Interdisciplinary and Community Collaboration

The Ortiz Center seeks to coalesce themes identified in research by creating public spaces for anthropology and related spheres of ahumanities emerging in contemporary contexts. Key to this process is engagement at the University of New Mexico beyond thetraditional routes in academia by employing public anthropology to interconnect themes to the idea of community and humankind. Ortiz Center activities serve as an organic nexus for starting conversations and extending dialogue towards unforeseenpossibilities and opportunities.