Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States (21 million according to U.S. Census, 2016). Despite this, Asian America’s diverse experiences remain invisible as a result of the “model minority” myth, the perception that they are stress and problem-free. This project employs the concept of intersectionality with literary and artistic interpretations of the Asian American experience to the field of psychology to ask: How can the humanities and social sciences make visible Asian America’s unique and diverse risks and resilience in mental health?

This research cluster highlights the interplay between radical feminist thought—that is, the political project of going to the roots of gendered inequalities—alongside sexuality and political resistance.  We look at marginalized groups and ideologies (e.g., indigenous rights, radical environmentalism) and we make unexpected connections among allies (e.g., radical feminist men, heterosexual allies for LGBT rights) as a way to deconstruct hierarchies around how radical feminism, sexuality, and resistance are conceptualized within the academy.  We are specifically interested in inter

This transdisciplinary and collaborative research cluster will explore how people engage with representations of otherness through the act of consumption. Participants will study the intersection of art and food, public festivals and race, class and ethnicity, and national identity and immigration.

This research cluster will examine current research in performance theory, phenomenology, cognitive psychology, and the neuroscience of movement in order to develop a fuller understanding of the role that motion and proprioception plays in cognitive and affective processes. In launching an interdisciplinary, collaborative think tank focused on embodiment, they seek to lay the theoretical groundwork for collaborative research and pilot an experimental study.

This research cluster will help to establish ASU as a leader in the study of sport in the humanities. The study of sport and the study of gender both require transdisciplinarity and a foundation of knowledge grounded in the humanities to peel off the layers of social and cultural meanings held by a society.

This research cluster brings together scholars from units across ASU whose work focuses on the period 1750-1850 to explore connections, convergences, and contradictions in our understanding of what it means to be modern. Even in our current post-modern (or post-post-modern) era, westerners still define themselves, their world, and the challenges they face in relationship to a concept of the modern which is based on the western experience from 1750 to 1850. In the west, this period marks the transition into the modern age.

English-learning represents a central need for refugee integration into US society and is an area where ASU has substantial expertise. However, ASU faculty need to listen closely to refugee communities in order to better understand their experiences, present situation, and how to shape educational opportunity to meet specific communal needs. This research cluster will bring refugee community representatives and activists to ASU in order to learn educational, cultural, and economic situations.

This research cluster will seek out possible common ground between America and China in the 21st century. Promoting dialogue at ASU and seeking mutual understanding should help build a firmer foundation for intellectual and cultural collaboration that might benefit ASU's research cooperation with Chinese institutions.

Economic collapses, natural disasters, human rights abuses, genocides, extreme hunger and suffering, political devolutions, environmental crises — these failures, hazards, crises, and disasters, whether acute or chronic, are endemic to our globalizing world. Modern bureaucratic organizations produce documents and plans that identify problems and propose solutions. These highly instrumental documents are, we argue, embedded in cultural assumptions and narratives – in a modern social imaginary.

This research cluster will meet monthly to develop core concepts of the trandisciplinary study of "space, place, society, and culture". Members will draw on work in history, geography, environmental studies, planning, philosophy, religion, sociology, cultural studies, and other disciplines. When presenting our findings and the work of seminal scholars, we will begin a sustained transdiciplinary investigation into the relationship of human beings to their physical environment throughout history.