Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster

This research cluster brings together faculty and graduate students for critical and cross-disciplinary conversations and activities concerning the cultural, political, and economic situation of Palestine and its framing in U.S. academic and public spheres.

A tri-campus trans studies research cluster that brings together cross-disciplinary scholars, artists, and leaders in conversation around the intersections between critical trans studies and trans knowledge production both inside and outside of the academy.

This research cluster seeks to develop practices of intentional kin-making across Black, Indigenous, and Diasporic communities by engaging abolition as a practice that builds up non-punitive and non-hierarchical forms of knowledge production.

Across the Americas, visual artists reveal the limitations of official state-authorized “truth and reconciliation” projects and the importance of including everyday people in the work of memory and protest.

Textual studies encompasses a broad set of disciplinary fields, techniques, and skills which seek to better understand the nature of texts. These include editing, bibliography, archival research, historical and literary scholarship, and the digital humanities.

Following scholarship on intersectionality, a particularly powerful analytic tool for understanding identity formation and experience, we argue that species can be added to—and can intersect with—gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, to better understand how vectors of power and privilege are formed and how we might start to shift them in the direction of greater social justice.