Doctoral Portfolio

Doctoral Portfolio in Cultural Studies

Over the last forty years Cultural Studies has emerged as a rigorous and theoretically-informed interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural forms and social processes. Deeply invested in questions concerning the relationship between culture, power, ideology, and the public sphere, the Doctoral Portfolio in Cultural Studies provides a critical approach to the study of these and other arenas of social life. Administered through the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies (formerly The Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology) the Doctoral Portfolio in Cultural Studies draws on the faculty resources of the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Communication, and the College of Fine Arts and provides an intellectually rich and stimulating crosscurrent of faculty in order to train graduate students and facilitate research by students and faculty in the area of Cultural Studies.