Education
Emphasizing interdisciplinarity and the global dimension, the Initiative develops undergraduate and graduate academic programs in the comparative study of race and ethnicity.
Academic programming initiatives include:
- Course development grants to faculty and graduate students
- Sponsorship of pedagogy working groups and/or colloquia across the University
- Pedagogy workshops in partnership with Notre Dame's Learning Kaneb Center and the Center on Literacy Education
- Educational outreach through lecture series, art exhibitions, film series, and other cultural programs, often in collaboration with existing units on campus
- Faculty-student mentorship program
- Faculty mentorship program
- Artist-in-residence program to bring the arts into the classroom
Academic Partners
Campus Academic
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Africana Studies spans the globe covering the U.S. and broader African diaspora. The Department’s intellectual interests cross an array of disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, the arts, business and the sciences.
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The Center for Literacy Education conducts research, community outreach, and teacher formation programs to improve literacy achievement and life outcomes for all students, especially those from vulnerable populations in public and Catholic schools.
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Fulfilling Notre Dame’s mission to cultivate a disciplined sensibility to poverty, injustice, and oppression, the Center for Social Concerns gathers, forms, and nourishes scholars in the study, practice, and renewal of Catholic social tradition.
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Debartolo Performing Arts Center
The Debartolo Performing Arts Center works collaboratively to elevate the greater good in society by establishing the University of Notre Dame as a leading voice in the arts.
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Department of American Studies
We interpret textual sources and visual culture as we employ diverse disciplinary perspectives to think about what it means to be American, including approaches from history, politics, art, literary studies, and media studies.
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The English Department at Notre Dame educates undergraduate and graduate students in literature written in English, literature’s cultural and interpretive contexts, creative writing, and creative reading.
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Notre Dame Department of Sociology is a center for innovative research. Our signature strengths are cultural sociology, the sociology of education, political sociology and social movements, and the sociology of religion.
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Integrating learning and research with social change, Gender Studies identifies, examines, and challenges injustice, while imagining and creating better futures that serve the common good.
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The Institute for Latino Studies brings together faculty and students who are interested in research and policy issues related to Latinos in the United States and abroad.
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Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning
Notre Dame Learning's Kaneb Center supports the pursuit of teaching excellence by stimulating scholarly reflection and conversation about teaching and encouraging the adoption of practices that enhance learning.
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is a teaching-and-research institute dedicated to the study and understanding of Irish culture—in Ireland and around the world—in all of its manifestations.
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Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights
Through education, inquiry, and engagement, the Klau Center seeks to be at the vanguard of innovative and principled ways to promote justice.
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Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies promotes the awareness, understanding, and knowledge of Asia both within and beyond the University community and provides a forum for integrated and interdisciplinary research and teaching on Asia.
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Nanovic Institute for European Studies
The mission of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies is to enrich the intellectual culture of Notre Dame by creating an integrated, interdisciplinary home for students and faculty to explore the factors that shape Europe today.
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Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) promotes issue-engaged, inclusive, and interdisciplinary study of questions that affect our ability to lead valuable, meaningful lives.
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Founded on the principle that art is essential to understanding individual, shared, and diverse human experiences and beliefs, the Snite Museum encourages close looking and critical thinking.