Intersectional Humanities (IHI)
The Intersectional Humanities Initiative (IHI) is focused on three fundamental pillars: institutional foundations, community innovation, and social entrepreneurship. IHI focus areas are:
- Institutional Foundations:
- These serve as the bedrock for the IHI. They encompass both qualitative and quantitative intellectual inquiry and a commitment to research ethics. By establishing this solid groundwork, we pave the way for meaningful exploration and collaboration.
- Community Innovation:
- At the heart of the IHI lies a dedication to amplifying the voices of artists, community intellectuals, and regional organizations. Through disciplinary conversations, we aim to build bridges between diverse cultural and institutional discourses. Our goal is to foster a rich exchange of ideas, theories, and practices that illuminate the stories of various communities—whether in Texas, the South, the United States, or our interconnected global society.
- Social Entrepreneurship:
- The IHI seeks to create generative spaces where multidimensional dialogues flourish. We approach social phenomena through a lens of creative reinvention, reimagining relational and communal identities. Doing so contributes to a more inclusive and dynamic understanding of intersecting experiences.
Join us and be part of the merging of ideas at the intersection of humanities.
Three Core Pilot Projects:
IHI Program
Community Scholars
IHI is committed to helping cultivate research relationships that extend beyond the borders of the UT campus.
This program works with local, non-profit organizations, connecting them with faculty, or appropriate campus resources. A grant of $2,500 is provided to help organizations complete a community-based project that supports their organizational mission.
Each cycle will have a theme that the organization will connect with. Fall 2024 theme: “How do we build community in the post-covid social world?
IHI Program
Research Working Groups
We currently host graduate student working groups each Spring semester. These groups draw together early career scholars from across campus who define their work as invested in intersectional research methods.
Participating scholars set and discuss various goals from their individual research programs, such as preparing a manuscript for publication or creating a methods statement, in a small, supportive environment.
Students also expand their peer networks outside of their own field specializations and departments.
IHI Program
Mid-Career Scholars
The Mid-Career Workshops aim to help tenured faculty working toward promotion to full professor develop their research profiles.
FALL 2024 theme: “Writing the 2nd Book…” (Humanities/Soft Social Science focused)
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Dr. Rachel V. Gónzalez-Martin
Associate Director, Intersectional Humanities Initiative (IHI)
“I am eager to bring together intersectional scholars from across campus. I am thrilled to begin my efforts with a pilot program focusing on graduate student research working groups that bolster creativity and rigor in research methods by centering collaboration and community.”
Rachel V. González-Martin, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Intersectional Humanities - The Humanities Institute | The University of Texas at Austin
You can learn more about her work here!!
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