Opened in November 2007, the Scherer Center will be the nexus for Chicago scholars studying a variety of aspects of American culture - ranging from American painting of the 18th Century, the great American novels of the 19th Century, and the linguistic origins of Native American dialects to the history of hip hop music.
The France Chicago Center is dedicated to facilitating, promoting, and fostering stronger ties between University of Chicago students and researchers and their colleagues in France. The center sponsors conferences, workshops, public lectures, visiting professors, fellowships, travel grants, exchange programs, and various cultural, scientific, and community activities.
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture is dedicated to promoting engaged scholarship and debate around the topics of race and ethnicity, how these ideas and their structures effect and shape people's lives, and how they intersect with other primary identities such as gender, class, sexuality, and nationality.
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.