Interdisciplinary 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.
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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

- Sociocultural & Anthropological Archaeology
- Biological Anthropology
Faculty:

Core Faculty:
Associated Faculty:
Tanya Golash-Boza
Whitney Laster Pirtle
Zulema Valdez
Affiliated Faculty:
Paul Almeida

- Literature and Cultures
- World, National, and Transnational Literature
- Performance and Drama
Faculty:

- Art History/Visual Studies
- Ethnomusicology
- Film and Media Studies
- Museum Studies
- Performance Studies
- Sound Studies
Faculty:

- United States
- Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic World
- Kenya and Nigeria
- Middle East/Islamic World
- food, race, gender, slavery, ethnicity and colonialism
Faculty:
Romina Ruvalcalba

- Heritage and Second Language Aquisition
- Socio-Linguistics

- Latina/o literature and culture
- Spanish-language literatures and culture
- Chicana/o literature and culture

- Creative Writing
- Rhetoric
- Composition
- Multilinguilism