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INTERSECT

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INTERSECT is a bold new initiative in interdisciplinary arts and humanities research & training.  These are two-year awards that will provide up to $125,000 per year (for a total of up to $250,000 per award) to support graduate students in the arts and humanities. 
 
The dominant focus of INTERSECT is to develop innovative and collaborative environments for graduate education that will respond to the rapid rates of change within institutions of higher learning.  This program will place graduate students trained in the arts and humanities at the University of Illinois at the forefront of interdisciplinary research.  These students will be capable of producing new knowledge valuable across disciplines, creating transformative learning experiences, and developing high levels of expertise necessary to contribute to new and emerging fields relevant to life in the 21st century.
 
The Graduate College is pleased to support the following two INTERSECT research groups.
 

Cultures of Law in Global Contexts

INTERSECT Cultures of Law in a Global Order group photoCultures of Law in Global Contexts will establish an institutional framework for collaboration between the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Economics, English, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, and Law.  This team of faculty conducts multi-lingual, cross-disciplinary, and transnational research on the Middle East, China, Russia, the European Union, the United States, and Latin America. Through their relationships with the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior, and Social Science, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Law and Globalization, and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, this group will forge new teaching and research methodologies to explore culture as a regulative force of practices and norms in law, and examine the ways law constitutes perceptions of justice, security, and development.

Participating faculty/staff include: (l to r) Nuno Garoupa, Dan Shao, Siobhan Somerville, Feisal Mohamed, and Eugene Avrutin; (not shown) Daniel Hamilton, Charlotte Ku, and Elizabeth Oyler

Graduate Student Fellows include: Lauren Anaya (Anthropology), Peter Campell (Communication), Jin Gong (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Emily Metzner (Anthropology), T.J. Tallie (History), Kate Walkiewicz (English)     
    

The Network for Neuro-Cultures

INTERSECT Network for Neuro-Cultures group photoThe Network for Neuro-Cultures brings together a team of faculty to investigate the processes by which neuroscientific methodologies weave humanistic modes of expression into research and scholarship. This group will prepare graduate students to mediate flows of knowledge between and within academic disciplines in order to create reflexive, inclusive neuroscholarship. The group is represented by faculty from English, Gender and Women’s Studies, History, Political Science, Religion, Cultural Kinesiology, Art + Design, and Neuroscience. Building upon extended networks of scholars in the United States and abroad, this group will train students to communicate across disciplines, become more self-reflexive in their own research approaches and claims, and learn how to build transdisciplinary collaborative research agendas.

Participating faculty include: (l to r) Bruce Michelson, Melissa Littlefield, Sharra Vostral, Synthia Sydnor, Bruce Rosenstock, and Andrew Gaedtke; (not shown) Neal Cohen, Arthur Kramer, and Deke Weaver

 

 
 
 
 

 

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