Our scholarship draws upon rich and varied histories of feminist thought to push the analytic edge of scholarship foregrounding gender, race and sexuality as integral components of local and global social structures, particularly within the contexts of capitalism, globalization, nationalism and neoliberalism.  We orient around social justice concerns by employing a relational analytics of power, representation and transnational circulation.  We see ourselves as pushing against various disciplinary, institutional and governmentality practices. The sites of our analysis include race/racism, ethnicity and immigration, cultural production and circulation, economic circulation and knowledge constructions, among many others. We draw on interdisciplinary methodologies to facilitate these inquires which are strongly influenced by social sciences but reshaped through the humanities, genealogy, cultural studies and post-structuralism.

The scholarship in our department can be displayed across several overlapping clusters:

1. Gender, sexuality, violence and social justice

2. Transnational perspectives on gender, racism, ethnicity and U.S. ethnic formations

3. Political economy, popular culture and commodity circulation

4. Theorizing power and representation

5. Methodology:  cultural studies, feminist science studies and inquiry

6.Feminist cultural production and public humanities