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Research Areas

Professor Jayson Beaster-Jones with Global Arts Studies ProgramInterdisciplinary Humanities (IH) is an innovative masters and doctoral program that incorporates anthropology, critical race and ethnic studies, global arts, history, languages, literature, world heritage and writing studies. An Interdisciplinary Humanities education is comprehensive, and also may include disciplinary specialization within integrative concepts and methods that enrich all cultural research. The program exposes students to many humanities professions and prepares students to engage the public scholarly activities.

Find more general degree information and guidelines here.

Working Groups and Initiatives

  • Asia and Asian Diaspora/Global Asia
  • Mesoamerican Studies
  • Pre-modern Studies
  • Women, Gender and Sexulaity Studies
  • Digital Heritage
  • Community Engaged Scholarship

Students may pursue these or additional interdisciplinary research themes based on personal interest and faculty expertise.


Faculty Disciplinary Areas

This research area seeks to understand the ways society is culturally and institutionally constituted by ideas of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation and provides an innovative, multidisciplinary paradigm that employs global (Western and non-Western), relational, and intersectional methods for producing knowledge about power and inequality, including systems of knowledge that have emerged from racialized and indigenous communities. In using race, ethnicity, and indigeneity as ideological frameworks, CRES aims to scrutinize cultures of power and domination as well as highlight and imagine struggles for liberation and self-determination.

 

Core Faculty:

Christina Baker

Sapana Doshi

Kit Myers

Nicosia Shakes

Ma Vang

Associated Faculty:

Arturo Arias

Lorena Alvarado

Kevin Dawson

Tanya Golash-Boza

Nigel Hatton

Ignacio López-Calvo

Dalia Magaña

Sean Malloy

Maria Martin

Whitney Laster Pirtle

Mario Sifuentez

Yehuda Sharim

Sabrina Smith

David Torres Rouff

Zulema Valdez

Shipu Wang

Affiliated Faculty:

Paul Almeida

Aditi Chandra

Robin DeLugan

Edward Flores

Humberto Garcia

Disciplinary Area includes:
  • Literature and Cultures
  • World, National, and Transnational Literature
  • Performance and Drama

 

Faculty: 

Katherine Steele Brokaw

Fatima Burney

Gregg Camfield

Weisong Gao

Humberto Garcia

 
 
 
 
 
Disciplinary Area includes:
 
  • Art History/Visual Studies
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Museum Studies
  • Performance Studies
  • Sound Studies

Faculty:

Lorena Alvarado

Jayson Beaster-Jones

Aditi Chandra

Maria DePrano

David Kaminsky

Jiajun Liang

Yehuda Sharim

Patricia Vergara

ShiPu Wang

Kenichi Yoshida


Disciplinary Area includes:
  • United States
  • Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic World
  • Kenya and Nigeria
  • Middle East/Islamic World
  • food, race, gender, slavery, ethnicity and colonialism

Faculty:

Susan D. Amussen

Christina Baker-Foley

Kevin Dawson

Sapana Doshi

Sean Malloy

Maria Martin

Kit Myers

Sholeh Quinn

Romina Ruvalcalba

Muey Saeturn

Nicosia Shakes

Mario Sifuentez

Sabrina Smith

David Torres Rouff

Ma Vang


 
  • Heritage and Second Language Aquisition
  • Socio-Linguistics
 
Faculty:

Virginia Adan-Lifante

Dalia Magaña

 

 
Disciplinary Area includes: 
 
  • Latina/o literature and culture
  • Spanish-language literatures and culture
  • Chicana/o literature and culture

 

Faculty:
 
Disciplinary Area includes: 
 
  • Heritage Studies
  • Digital Heritage
  • Mapping and GIS
 
Faculty:
Disciplinary Area includes: 
 
  • Creative Writing
  • Rhetoric
  • Composition
  • Multilinguilism
 
 Faculty:
 

Eileen Camfield