The IHC Research Focus Groups (RFG) program aims at bringing together faculty and graduate students with shared research interests from different fields and departments/programs to foster the development of interdisciplinary research agendas. Convened by individuals from at least two departments/programs, the RFGs meet regularly (at least three times a quarter) during the academic year to present work in progress, read and discuss texts and current scholarship, and/or plan and implement common research projects.
Past Research Focus Groups
- 4Humanities
- African Studies
- Archaeology
- Architecture and Mind
- Catholic Studies
- Citizenship & Democracy in the 21st Century
- Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean
- Crossing the Regional Divide
- Culture, Gender and Aesthetics
- Early American Studies
- East Asian Cultures
- Eastern and Central Europe
- Energy Challenges in the Developing World
- Environmental Media
- Ethnography and Cultural Studies
- Evangelical Studies
- Food Studies
- Health, Medicine, and Care
- History of Books and Material Texts
- History and Ecological Restoration
- HumAnimality
- Identity Studies
- Interdisciplinary and Comparative Taiwanese Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Keeping Time
- Labor Studies
- Lament Traditions
- Mediterranean Studies
- Modernism
- Modern Mexico
- Music as Media
- Native American Indigenous Languages
- New Sexualities
- Pagans: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Idolatry
- Para/Sites
- Parameters of Play
- Performance, Politics, and Practice
- Queer Theory
- Reinventing Japan
- Religion, Science, and Nature
- Sound in the Arts
- Sustainability and the New Human
- Synaesthesia in the Arts, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Torture and the Future
- Transregional East Asia
- The Uses of the Public University
- Visual Culture
- What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media
- w/Shakespeare