The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies was created in 2009 to nurture dialogue among the many disciplines, scholars, and students engaged in Jewish Studies at the University. Building on the particularly theoretical and interdisciplinary intellectual culture of Chicago, the Center aims to raise new questions and catalyze unexplored connections that will reconfigure the boundaries of Jewish Studies both within and beyond the walls of the University.
The Center for Italian Opera Studies is the home of the Chicago critical editions of the works of Verdi and Rossini.
The Center for International Studies, which coordinates and supervises the University of Chicago's international programs, has grown out of the University's seven-decade-long involvement in the study of international phenomena. In the 1930s the first Committee on International Relations in the United States was founded at Chicago and since then the University has remained a key innovator in the study of other cultures, launching area studies centers, various interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and committees, and educational outreach programs.
Chicago's Human Rights Program provides a forum for the exploration of the core questions of human dignity and critical examination of the institutions designed to promote and protect human rights in the contemporary world. Drawing its faculty from across the University, the center is concerned with integrating disciplinary, thematic, and regional perspectives and aspires to educate its students as citizens as well as teachers, business people, or scientists.