Call for Proposals

The Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies invites applications from UNM faculty and students of the Department of and Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to apply for funding to support collaborative initiatives in the arts, humanities and social sciences that bridge academia and the wider community. 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. We support fully-developed collaborative projects, with budgets up to $10,000. We also provide seed funds to develop longer-term and/or larger-scale collaborative projects with budgets up to $3,000. Graduate Students are eligible to apply for the small grants. 

Application Form and Guidelines:

Spring 2024 Ortiz Center Grant Application.

For more detailed guidelines and instructions, click here. 

Email the completed application to mwgraves@unm.edu by 5pm April 17, 2024.

Interdisciplinary and Community Collaboration

The Ortiz Center seeks to coalesce themes identified in research by creating public spaces for anthropology and related spheres of a humanities emerging in contemporary contexts. Key to this process is engagement at the University of New Mexico beyond the traditional 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 unforeseen possibilities and opportunities.