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Awarded Three Mellon grants in 3.5 years!

$517K to build a national network for Intersectional Studies (1 of only 6 universities chosen)
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$600K to become a top 3 program in Pacific Island Studies
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$1 Million to create a Center for Pasifika and Indigenous Knowledges

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people marching while holding the Brazilian, Mexican, and American national flags

Historic 2006 “Invisible No More” march subject of exhibit

Professor Armando Solórzano collected the speeches made by city officials, religious leaders and community members at the march and created an archive of interviews, newspaper clippings and analysis surrounding the event.

Research at the Intersections: Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Ethnicity

What does it mean to do genuinely intersectional research on disability, race, Indigeneity and ethnicity? Please join us on Wednesday, Oct. 4, online as five scholars explain their current projects and discuss their intersectional topics and methods.

the Block U installation on the University of Utah campus

Celebrating the first African and second woman in the British colonies to publish a book of poetry

On Sept. 14, 2023, join us at the Black Cultural Center to engage with Phillis Wheatley Peters’ complex life and even more complex legacy as the second Colonial American woman—and the first of African descent—to publish a book of poetry.

Sonia and Miriam Albert-Sobrino working on a film set

Illuminating intersectionality

Projects now underway are aimed at taking the theory of intersectionality out of the classroom and into the public sphere as part of the U’s Transformative Intersectional Collective initiative.

School for Cultural & Social Transformation

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Academic Units

Ethnic
Studies

Disability
Studies

Gender
Studies

Pacific
Islands
Studies

Awarded Three Mellon grants in 3.5 years!

Transformative Perspectives

Historic 2006 “Invisible No More” march subject of exhibit

Research at the Intersections: Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Ethnicity

Celebrating the first African and second woman in the British colonies to publish a book of poetry

Illuminating intersectionality

Transform

Research

Academic Units

EthnicStudies

DisabilityStudies

GenderStudies

PacificIslandsStudies

Awarded Three Mellon grants in 3.5 years!

Transformative Perspectives

Historic 2006 “Invisible No More” march subject of exhibit

Research at the Intersections: Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Ethnicity

Celebrating the first African and second woman in the British colonies to publish a book of poetry

Illuminating intersectionality

Ethnic
Studies

Disability
Studies

Gender
Studies

Pacific
Islands
Studies