Centers & Institutes

Provide critical training to strengthen efforts to revitalize and promote the use of Indigenous languages across generations. Includes the West Region Native American Language Resource Center.

Generates scholarship on Turkish society, history, politics, economy, environment, literature, film, art, architecture, and music.

Conducts multidisciplinary research on immigration issues that responds to community needs.

Brings focus to the challenges facing journalists everywhere, as they engage a more globalized and perilous world.

Brings the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, medicine, the arts, and humanities to move toward an integrated understanding of human consciousness.

Housed in the School of Global Studies, CLAS is a Title VI National Resource Center that promotes research, outreach, and teaching on Latin America. It also offers an undergraduate major and minor, as well as a number of dual-degree master's programs. 

Housed in the School of Global Studies, CMES is a Title VI National Resource Center that promotes research, teaching, and outreach related to the Middle East. 

Integrates social, behavioral, and life sciences into interdisciplinary studies and community dialogue regarding change in regional food systems.

Advances the knowledge, pursuit, and evaluation of significant public policy issues as they relate to the field of criminal justice.

Promotes binational collaboration and provides resources for SBS faculty, and students to facilitate joint research and scholarly activity.

Housed in the School of Global Studies, the Southwest Center creates partnerships with Sonora and Mexico, contributing to scholarship and research on diverse cultures native to the Southwest.

Develops, conducts, and disseminates collaborative outreach, education, intervention, and research projects of importance to diverse groups.