The Cultural Studies Program brings together faculty and graduate students from over 18 departments across the College of Arts and Sciences, The Media School, the School for Global and International Studies, and the Jacobs School of Music who study cultural production and the social construction of taste, value, and belief systems. We address both historical and contemporary cultural practices and pay particular attention to the relationship between cultural form and power relations in society. Issues of class, race, sexuality, and gender receive prominent critical attention, as do conventional divisions between “high culture” and more “popular” forms of expression. This program offers a Ph.D. minor and sponsors events that foster interdisciplinary conversation, including our annual fall conference.

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