• Graduate work is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, addressing complex processes of cultural change, stability and interaction, with particular attention to the construction of knowledge and the dynamics of power and authority.
  • Questions of difference—racial, gender, sexual, class, ethnic national—and the ways in which those categorizations inform and are informed by other discourses and practices are central to scholarship in comparative studies.
  • Students develop a clear area of concentration and sound theoretical foundations for their individual program of study in order to attain depth of knowledge, as well as breadth. Students work with faculty in Comparative Studies as well as those in other departments.