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 two 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.
Research Focus Groups
2025-26 Research Focus Groups
Caribbean Studies
Cathy Thomas, English
Omise’eke Tinsley, Black Studies
Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together
Bishnupriya Ghosh, English
Sherene Seikaly, History
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ghana Studies
kwabena agyare yeboah, History
Christabel Agyeiwaa, History
Peter Bloom, Film and Media Studies
Stephan Miescher, History
Priscilla Owusu Amoako, History
Francis Yeboah, Film and Media Studies
Global Childhood Media
Peter Bloom, Film and Media Studies
Dominique Jullien, French and Italian
Martina Mattei, Comparative Literature
Muhammad “Mo” Muzammal, Film and Media Studies
Nicole Smirnoff, Comparative Literature
Sara Pankenier Weld, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies
Li-Ting Chang, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Howard Chiang, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Diandian Zeng, Music
Legal Humanities
Maha Agha Kalsoum, Religious Studies
Ahmad Ahmad, Religious Studies
Joe Blankholm, Religious Studies
Jeannine DeLombard, English
Beth DePalma Digeser, History
Wael Hegazy, Religious Studies
Dusty Hoesley, Capps Center
Mohamad Jarada, Anthropology
Gregory Johnson, Religious Studies
Elinor Mason, Philosophy
Kathleen Moore, Religious Studies
Giuliana Perrone, History
Kari Robinson, Legal and Medical Humanities
MariaCarolina Sintura, English
LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization)
Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics
Amy Kyratzis, Education
Geoffrey Raymond, Sociology
Kevin Whitehead, Sociology
Marat Zheng, Sociology
Low-Resource Research Ethics
Laurel Brehm, Linguistics
Annie K. Lamar, Classics
Cypris Roalsvig, Classics
Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
Jim Casey, English
Gabrielle Cosey, English
Manuel Covo, History
Jeannine DeLombard, English
Stephanie Malia Hom, French and Italian
Candice Lyons, Black Studies
Rose MacLean, Classics
John Majewski, History
Giuliana Perrone, History
Cathy Thomas, English
Sounding Transpacific Asia
Clara Chin, English
Susan Hwang, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
Alexander Murphy, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
David Novak, Music
Tiffany Ta, Music
Diandian Zeng, Music
South Asian Religions and Cultures
Barbara Holdrege, Religious Studies
Bhaskar Sarkar, Film and Media Studies