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Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Group (IHGG)

The Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Humanities is an innovative comparative humanistic program applying analytical and theoretical approaches to the study of societies and cultures in relation to power and difference through social practices and cultural expressions across time and space.

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