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  Fall 2024 registration is now open! Make sure to check out our exciting, upper-division electives in African American and African Diaspora Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies.  Our undergraduate degree majors and minors provide students with the skills they…
Spring 2024 registration is now open! Make sure to check out our exciting, upper-division electives in African American and African Diaspora Studies, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latinx and Latin American Studies.  Our undergraduate degree majors and minors provide students with the skills they need to…
Congratulations to IGES student Joy Cooper, who was recently awarded the prestigious 2023 Lance and Elena Calvert Award for Undergraduate Research. Her project is titled: "A Tool for Digital Bibliotherapy: Fostering Emotional Resiliency Through A Visual Novel" and her faculty sponsor was IGES professor Dr. Sheila Bock. Joy graduated from UNLV with her Multidisciplinary Studies degree on Saturday…

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Tyler Parry points to a white board that reads "know your history"

… And the many moments of racial tension amid segregation in Southern Nevada that came before it. 

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Sexual Entertainment and Economies will provide academic insight for researchers on the history and development of these industries in Nevada and beyond.

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  • Professor and Director, Asian and Asian American Studies
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
  • Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Calling All Alumni

We would like to hear from Alumni! Let us know how you're doing, what you're up to, and how you use Interdisciplinary Studies now. We are looking for more alumni to feature in the Alumni Features section.

Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies is one of the academic programs in the College of Liberal Arts.