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


What does it mean to do genuinely intersectional research on disability, race, Indigeneity and ethnicity? Five scholars explain their current projects and discuss their intersectional topics and methods in this panel discussion.

Research at the Intersections Recording & Transcript

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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

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.

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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.

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Meet the TRIC Research Fellows and Initiatives


The School for Cultural and Social Transformation received a three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an intersectional studies collective as part of a national initiative. The University of Utah is one of six institutions in the national network.

TRIC Fellows & Initiatives

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Baodong Liu and his role in landmark voting rights case


Ethnic Studies' Liu served as an expert witness in a consequential voting rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Dean of School for Cultural and Social Transformation is named


University of Utah Provost Mitzi M. Montoya announced that Ruma Chopra has accepted an offer to serve as dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.

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University of Utah Professor William A. Smith receives national award for contributions to research


Smith’s research focuses on racial battle fatigue, a framework he created to describe the cumulative emotional, psychological, physiological and behavioral effects of racial micro- and macro-level aggressions experienced by people of color.

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