Research on Interdisciplinary Global Studies (RIGS)

The mission of RIGS is to support a vibrant and synergistic community of scholars who traverse disciplinary and geographical boundaries. It facilitates collaboration and advances innovative, critical scholarship, advocacy, and practice. RIGS faculty support includes providing networking opportunities that may lead to teaching, publishing, and grant collaborations as well exchanges of work-in-progress (WIP) for feedback. Activities that showcase faculty in an exchange of ideas include but are not limited to: talks, roundtables/panels, workshops, book launches, and film screenings that engage with local, national and international issues and media and that strive to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. We also offer curated, crowdsourced educational resources for classroom instruction and to support broader efforts of public knowledge dissemination.