Advancing and promoting research and creative endeavors in the College of Arts and Letters.

From getting projects off the ground to sharing their impact with the world, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts ensures faculty and students at all levels get the research support they need and the scholarly recognition they deserve.

2024-2025 Annual Research Theme: The Public

With this year’s theme, ISLA aims to foster scholarly engagement with “the public,” as both a constituency and a concept. We seek proposals that draw from the insights of the liberal arts to develop impactful models of publicly engaged scholarship and to interrogate and historicize the very notion of “the public” itself.