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.

Application Guidelines
Administrative Guidelines

In 2009-2010, the IHC provides support for following Research Focus Groups:

African Studies
Ancient Borderlands
Archaeology
Chicano/Latino Studies
Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century
East Asian Cultures
Evangelical Studies
Food Studies
History of Books and Material Texts
Identity Studies
Language, Interaction and Social Organization
Mediterranean Studies
New Sexualities
Performance Studies
South Asian Religions and Cultures

RFGs from previous years

Catholic Studies
Culture, Gender and Aesthetics
Early American Studies
Eastern and Central Europe
Environmental Media
History and Ecological Restoration
Jewish Studies
Labor Studies
Lament Traditions
Modernism
Music as Media
Native American Indigenous Languages
Queer Theory
Religion, Science, and Nature
Sound in the Arts
Synaesthesia in the Arts, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Torture and the Future
Visual Culture

RFG Event Publicity
To publicize for IHC Research Focus Group events please complete the Publicity Request Form.