The Graduate Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative

Graduate students in Humanities and related fields are encouraged to participate in the Interdisciplinary Cluster Initiative, a program designed to help graduate students during their academic career at Northwestern by fostering connections with students and faculty in other programs with whom they might have natural intellectual affinities. Interdisciplinary clusters in different areas of intellectual inquiry have been developed by faculty across schools and programs and will provide a second intellectual home for incoming and current graduate students. Clusters offer their own discrete courses as well as sponsor a number of activities and events for students and faculty. Students interested in pursuing dedicated interdisciplinary study should visit here for more information about the intellectual activities of these programs. Prospective students have the opportunity to select on their application to graduate school the cluster with which they would like to affiliate, though choosing a cluster is not a requirement for admission. Students may affiliate with a cluster at any point during their study at Northwestern.

Current interdisciplinary clusters are:

• African Studies
• Asian Studies
• Classical Traditions
• Comparative and Historical Social Science
• Critical Studies in Theatre and Performance
• Critical Theory
• Gender Studies
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Rhetoric and Public Culture
  
• Russian, East European and Jewish Studies
• Science Studies