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.
2024-2025 Research Clusters
Approaches to Queer MediaStudent Directors: Brandon Blackburn, Film & Media Studies, Kimberly Dennin, Informatics
Black Panther Oakland Community School
Faculty Director: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History and Asian American Studies
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Japanese Studies
Faculty Director: Jon Pitt, East Asian Studies
Global Asias
Faculty Director: Christopher T. Fan, English
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Student Directors: Ashwin Bajaj, Comparative Literature, and Gayatri Mehra, Comparative Literature
Graphic Narratives
Faculty Directors: David Colmenares, Comparative Literature, and Rocío Pichon-Rivière, Spanish & Portuguese
Latinx Humanities
Faculty Directors: Christofer Rodelo, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Valentina Montero Román, English
Daniel M. Gross, English