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Faculty Disciplinary Areas
Disciplinary area includes:
- Sociocultural & Anthropological Archaeology
- Biological Anthropology
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This research area seeks to understand the ways society is culturally and institutionally constituted by ideas of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation and provides an innovative, multidisciplinary paradigm that employs global (Western and non-Western), relational, and intersectional methods for producing knowledge about power and inequality, including systems of knowledge that have emerged from racialized and indigenous communities. In using race, ethnicity, and indigeneity as ideological frameworks, CRES aims to scrutinize cultures of power and domination as well as highlight and imagine struggles for liberation and self-determination.
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Disciplinary Area includes:
- Literature and Cultures
- World, National, and Transnational Literature
- Performance and Drama
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Disciplinary Area includes:
- Art History/Visual Studies
- Ethnomusicology
- Film and Media Studies
- Museum Studies
- Performance Studies
- Sound Studies
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Patricia Vergara
Disciplinary Area includes:
- Early Modern Britain and its empire
- Atlantic World
- Gender
- Literature and History
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Disciplinary Area includes:
- Heritage and Second Language Aquisition
- Socio-Linguistics
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Disciplinary Area includes:
- Latin American Literature and culture
- Spanish literature and culture
- Mexican-American literature and culture
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Jill Robbins (currently Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts)
Disciplinary Area includes:
- Heritage Studies
- Digital Heritage
- Mapping and GIS
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Disciplinary Area includes:
- Creative Writing
- Rhetoric
- Composition
- Multilinguilism
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