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CISA Faculty Fellows: Reflections from the Center

"The Center and CISA represent something new and challenging–a site of exchange about ideas rather than a focus for shaping those ideas, a space in which to redefine the boundaries of our disciplines."
- Rhonda Cobham Sander, Black Studies and English, Amherst College

"CISA extends the possibilities of area studies, cultural studies, and ethnic studies by allowing interdisciplinary studies to be the focus of attention, and by giving all of them a home from which to operate … it's a point of departure for reading, discussing, and teaching."
- Henry Geddes, Department of Communication, and Latin American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts

"Through CISA we are questioning how we negotiate and strategize the political choices between the global and the local in order to conceptualize an alternative discourse."
- Mitziko Sawada, School of Natural Sciences, Hampshire College

"It’s my hope that CISA can help us give students the intellectual tools and critical methods needed for understanding the political, cultural, and spiritual motivations of inter-American migrations in historical context."
- Ron Welburn, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, and former chair, Five College Native American Studies Committee