Graduate Research

Graduate Research
Graduate Research

The College of the Liberal Arts’ graduate programs offer a wide range of opportunities within the humanities, languages, and social sciences for students to complete research.

Our innovative centers and institutes facilitate interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research and outreach on particular topics of academic or societal importance. These—in addition to our dozens of research labs—allow undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty to work alongside each other to examine our past and present through various lenses to address and solve our most prominent societal issues and prepare future generations to create a better tomorrow.

Doctoral student Maggie Hernandez received a five-year, $327,812 award to study Cuban and Cuban-American health disparities.

Graduate Research

A great way to enhance your graduate experience and develop skills that will be attractive to future employers is through research. Participate in research and get to know faculty on a different level, in a different setting.  

Maggie Hernandez
Grad Research

Maggie Hernandez

’24
Ph.D. Anthropology
Ph.D. Anthropology
Maggie received a five-year, $327,812 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award for a Diverse Genomics Workforce from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to support her multifaceted research project, “Noventa Millas: Migration history, genomic ancestry, and health disparities among Cuban immigrants and Cuban-Americans in the United States.”

Faculty Research

There are more than 780 full-time faculty in the College of the Liberal Arts spanning more than fifty disciplines in the liberal arts ranging from anthropology and economics to global security and women’s studies. Our graduate students have the opportunity to find faculty whose interests match theirs and work with the best of the best. 

Faculty ResearchHistoryRichards Center

Rachel Shelden

Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Rachel is an associate professor of history who focuses her resarch on the political and constitutional history of the the long nineteenth century—encompassing 1789 to 1914.
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