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, usually $1,500 per year, to support activities that incubate new research collaborations, foster new faculty research trajectories, and develop project ideas for implementation.
2023-2024 Research Clusters
Black Panther Oakland Community School
Faculty Directors: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History and Asian American Studies
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Japanese Studies
Faculty Director: Margherita Long, East Asian Studies
Global Asias
Faculty Directors: Jerry Lee, English, and Julia Lee, Asian American Studies
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Graphic Narratives
Faculty Directors: David Colemares, Comparative Literature, and Rocío Pichon-Rivière, Spanish & Portuguese
Latinx Humanities
Faculty Directors: Christofer Rodelo, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Valentina Montero Román, English
Social Unity
Faculty Directors: Margaret Gilbert and Katherine Ritchie, Philosophy
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