Current Research Clusters

Research Clusters are groups of faculty and graduate students from the University of Illinois campus who work together to explore particular questions or subjects in the humanities and arts.

2024–25 Research Clusters

Environmental Humanities

Co-Directors:

  • John Levi Barnard (English/Comparative and World Literature)
  • Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture)
     

Ethical Methods of Community Engagement in Design and the Arts

Director:

  • Kathryn Holliday (Architecture/Landscape Architecture)
     

Interdisciplinary Sport Studies

Co-Directors:

  • Caitlin Clarke (Health and Kinesiology)
  • Jesse Couture (Health and Kinesiology)
  • Jacob Fredericks (Recreation, Sport, and Tourism)

 

See past research clusters.