Research Areas

Professor Jayson Beaster-Jones with Global Arts Studies Program 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.

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

Anthropology

Disciplinary area includes:

Sociocultural & Anthropological Archaeology
Biological Anthropology

Faculty:

Christina Torres-Rouff

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)

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.

Faculty:

Associated Faculty: