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
Adaptation Studies
James Kearney, English
James McNamara, Film and Media Studies
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
Childhood and Youth Studies
Peter Bloom, Film and Media Studies
Sabine Frühstück, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Lisa Jacobson, History
Dominique Jullien, French and Italian
Sara Pankenier Weld, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ghana Studies
Peter Bloom, Film and Media Studies
Stephan Miescher, History
Global Indigeneities
Maung Ting Nyeu, Education
Legal Humanities
Ahmad Ahmad, Religious Studies
Jeannine DeLombard, English
Beth DePalma Digeser, History
Wael Hegazy, Religious Studies
Mohamad Jarada, Anthropology
Gregory Johnson, Religious Studies
Paul Kohlbry, Global Studies
Elinor Mason, Philosophy
Kathleen Moore, Religious Studies
Giuliana Perrone, History
Kari Robinson, Legal and Medical Humanities
LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization)
Kevin Whitehead, Sociology
Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics
Amy Kyratzis, Education
Geoffrey Raymond, Sociology
Low-Resource Research Ethics
Laurel Brehm, Linguistics
Annie K. Lamar, Classics
Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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
Susan Hwang, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Alexander Murphy, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
David Novak, Music
South Asian Religions and Cultures
Barbara Holdrege, Religious Studies
Bhaskar Sarkar, Film and Media Studies
Anil Mundra, Religious Studies