Interdisciplinary Working Groups

The FHI supports cross-disciplinary working groups in fields of long-established scholarly import and emerging areas of the humanities.

The FHI Interdisciplinary Working Groups program supports faculty-led cross-disciplinary intellectual projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences, in fields of long-established scholarly import and in emerging areas of inquiry.  Follow links below (more coming soon) to learn more about the funded groups for 2011-12, including information on meetings and public events. We are also supporting two undergraduate working groups this academic year.

Audiovisualities
Conveners: Guo-Juin Hong (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies - AMES), John Supko (Music), Jacqueline Waeber (Music)

Chinese Urbanization and Migration
Conveners: Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology), Carlos Rojas (AMES)

Difference
Conveners: Ian Baucom (FHI/English), Ben Reese (Office of Institutional Equity)

Environment, People, Arts / Engagement, Performance, Action (EPA2)
Conveners: Norman Christensen (Environment), Jules Odendahl-James (Theater Studies), Christine Erlien (Environment)

Food Studies
Convener: Charlie Thompson (Documentary Studies)

The Israeli Military Occupation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Convener: Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology)

Migration, Languages, and Cultures
Conveners: Dominika Baran (English), Hae-Young Kim (AMES), Gareth Price (Linguistics), Luciana Fellin (Romance Studies)

Neurohumanities
Conveners: Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies), Michael Platt (Neurobiology), Richard Mooney (Neurobiology)
Jointly sponsored by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Occupy
Conveners: Michael Hardt (Literature), Jedediah Purdy (Law)

Sport
Conveners: Claire Conceison (Theater Studies), Orin Starn (Cultural Anthropology), John Thompson (History)

WIRED!
Conveners: Rachel Brady (Computer Science), Caroline Bruzelius (Art, Art History & Visual Studies - AAHVS), Sheila Dillon (AAHVS), Mark Olson (AAHVS), Victoria Szabo (AAHVS), Raquel Salvatella de Prada (AAHVS)