This research cluster plans to meet once a month to discuss articles and/or books relating to questions of language, identities, and ideology. We will also read each other's work on this topic, providing feedback prior to presentation at scholarly meetings and or publication. At the end of the spring semester this cluster will present a public symposium with the hope of attracting the general public, K-12 teachers, as well as university students and faculty.

This group will gather together researchers from across the various humanistic, social science, and biological science disciplines that contribute to the many ways women's health is defined, investigated, and pursues. Internationally, women's health movements began as mechanisms to focus more attention on women's healthcare issues; a key component of this effort was to broaden the definition of "women's health" from simple issues of reproduction to health of woman as whole beings across the life span.

Participants in "Race in All Its Formations" will meet monthy for provocative discussion about how racial formations in the United States inform and have been informed by discourses about science, health, policy, history, culture, and globalization. United States continues to be understood as a black and white binary.

This Research Group will provide an interdisciplinary forum at ASU for scholars interested in the themes of migration, displacement, and borders. Its interests will extend from domestic migration, to international migration, to refugees and displaced persons. The group will meet approximately once a month to hear a presentation of a forthcoming professional paper by one of the participants. There will be a featured presentation by a scholar from another university on the final spring semester public forum, with comments and discussion by members of the group.

This Research Cluster's initial focus will be the variety of ways in which "Europe" has been defined and delimited over the past two millennia.

This Research Cluster plans to meet monthly to read current scholarly literature on the relationship between religious conversion and globalization, discuss these issues, and prepare grant appropriate grant proposals to major granting agencies, including the Social Science Research Council, the International Research and Exchange Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

This research cluster is devoted to investigating the interactions between urban values, urban systems and spaces, and inhabitants of the city by focusing on the cultural dimensions of urban planning, urban systems, and the experiences of urban life. This cluster will investigate the cultural dimensions of urban systems and spaces by bringing together scholars from history, anthropology and religious studies working on cities in the United States, Germany, France, Russia and the Philippines.

The goal of this Research Cluster is to bridge the growing bioengineering and bioethics communities on campus and in the Valley. The topic of focus will be the science and ethics of neural prosthetics in three domains: cochlear implants, motor control prosthetics, and deep-brain stimulation. The group will meet monthly to discuss ethical and societal aspects of research, development, regulations, and clinical application and integration of neural prosthetics.

The initial aim of this Research Cluster will be to study the experience of peoples of African Ancestry. However, the main focus will be to engage interested faculty with various debates concerning the African Diaspora and its various definitions. We propose to use these discussions as a bridge into a consideration of the changing role of Africa in the global world. Furthermore, this Research Cluster aims to use their discussions as a bridge into a consideration of changing the global world.

Speaking Arizona is a project designed to address major gaps in our understanding of the role of speaking and language in creating and reinventing the identities of different communities in Arizona. The Phoenix metropolitan area is rapidly changing multicultural area with shifting demographic patterns, and the state itself represents a unique mosaic of language communities. It is our plan to meet regularly during the 2006-2007 academic year, reading and discussing Arizona and styles of speaking associated with different communities of practice such as mining or ranching in Arizona.