Research Centers and Institutes
Besides our multidisciplinary departments and academic programs, the College of Arts and Letters also has many other unique programs dedicated to research. We are proud to be a part of the SDSU Areas of Excellence Initiative; two of these areas include CAL faculty in positions of leadership. Under this initiative, new tenure-track faculty positions are allocated to advance existing and future areas of scholarly excellence, and to foster interdisciplinary collaborations in research and creative endeavors.
Centers and Institutes
- Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies
- Bread and Roses Center
- Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
- Center for Better Food Futures
- Center for Comics Studies
- Center for Community Research and Engagement (CCRE)
- Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research (CESAR)
- Center for European Studies
- Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies (CHEPS)
- Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA)
- Center for Human Rights
- Center for Information Convergence and Strategy (CICS)
- Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies (CIAS)
- Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
- Center for Public and Oral History
- Center for Regional Sustainability (CRS)
- Center for War and Society
- Collections Management
- Complex Human-Environment Systems Center (CHES)
- Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
- Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias (IRSC)
- International Population Center (IPC)
- Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC)
- Lipinsky Institute
- National Center for the Study of Children's Literature (NCSCL)
- Social Science Research Lab (SSRL)
- South Coastal Information Center (SCIC)
- Watershed Science Institute (WSI)
- Young People’s Environments, Society and Space Research Center (YESS)
Areas of Excellence
Other
Be sure to also take a look at our academic programs and departments' pages for more information on CAL.