Research Clusters aim to foster a range of new ideas in multi-disciplinary setting, wherever they might be taking shape. Identifying fields and research questions that do not belong to a particular department, research clusters encourage new groupings that may grow into longer-term partnerships or provide briefer bursts of inspiration and pollination. Research clusters are less formalized groups of faculty and graduate students within the School of Humanities that may also include faculty and graduate students from other Schools.

The Humanities Center provides program funds to support activities that incubate new research collaborations, foster new faculty research trajectories, and develop project ideas for implementation.

2024-2025 Research Clusters

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    Approaches to Queer Media

    Graduate Student Directors: Brandon Blackburn, Film & Media Studies; Kimberly Dennin, Informatics

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    Faculty Director: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History and Asian American Studies

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    Faculty Director: Jon Pitt, East Asian Studies

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    Faculty Director: Christopher T. Fan, English

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    Global South Critique

    Graduate Student Directors: Ashwin Bajaj, Comparative Literature, and Gayatri Mehra, Comparative Literature

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    Faculty Directors: David Colmenares, Comparative Literature; Rocío Pichon-Rivière, Spanish & Portuguese

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    Latinx Humanities

    Faculty Directors: Christofer Rodelo, Chicano/Latino Studies; Valentina Montero Román, English

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    Faculty Director: Daniel M. Gross, English