The Interdisciplinary Individual Ph.D. program is for exceptionally able students in high academic standing whose objectives for study are so truly interdisciplinary that they cannot be met within one of the University units authorized to grant the Ph.D. degree. The program is intended for dissertation topics that require supervision from two or more of the programs through which the University offers the Ph.D. degree.
Degree(s) offered
Doctor of Philosophy (Individual Ph.D.)
Program director/interdisciplinary group chair
- Mark Zachry, Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
Interdisciplinary Faculty Group Membership
The following are the core/voting Graduate Faculty members of the interdisciplinary group. For a complete list of faculty active in the program, see the program website.
- Laada Bilaniuk, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Kirstin Foot, Professor, Department of Communication
- Kevin Haggerty, Professor, School of Social Work
- Michael Townsend, Associate Professor, School of Law
- Mark Zachry, Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering