Bridging Communities

FAIN: BC-50191-04

Michigan Humanities Council (Okemos, MI 48864-6012)
Janice M. Fedewa (Project Director: March 2004 to June 2012)
Mary Kathleen Wolf (Project Director: June 2012 to August 2012)
Robbe DiPietro (Project Director: August 2012 to May 2013)
Erik Charles Nordberg (Project Director: May 2013 to October 2014)
Janice M. Fedewa (Project Director: October 2014 to September 2006)

A special grant program that focuses on national themes and events through the lens of Michigan history.

The Michigan Humanities Council will issue an RFP for proposals that recognize Michigan’s identity as an “inclusive identity,” i.e., one that has faced questions of difference throughout its ethnic, political, economic, creative, labor, and regional relationships. Proposals will address Michigan’s struggle with questions of identity by engaging the tensions that make Michigan a microcosm of forces that shape America. The following terms should anchor proposals: urban vs. rural; local vs. state; state vs. federal; ethnicity; regionalism; identity; conflict; federalism, and nationalism.