Thinking beyond disciplinary boundaries to imagine a sustainable future
~ Crisis Lab
Culture and Rhetorical Inquiry with Storytelling and Interpretation of Social Inequities in Crisis (CRISIS-LAB) shapes the minds of the next generation of scholars through the humanities, empowering them to integrate humanistic principles into the diverse career paths they choose and to remain lifelong contributors to society.
My lab is an arts and humanities research group that provides hands-on training to undergraduate and graduate students in conducting critical humanistic inquiry into the ongoing naturally occurring events, as well as man-made crises. Through my lab, I offer a dedicated space for students and opportunities to engage with the humanities-grounded research.
I welcome students from all disciplines to work with me to conduct interdisciplinary research by creating opportunities to converge research methods that enhance students’ knowledge, skills, and perspectives across disaster contexts.
Students who have worked in this lab were from Rhetoric, English, CMDA, Computer Science, Engineering Education, and psychology, and more.
Students are trained to:
- Think beyond their disciplinary boundaries and imagine a better future
- Practically, students conduct literature review, design research methods, collect and analyze data.
- Students also work on publication of journal articles with me
- Finally, students also travel to present at various academic conferences with me.
If you are at Virginia Tech and want to work on research project with me send the following to my email address: baniya@vt.edu
- A single Page cover letter on your interest
- A resume
Sweta Baniya, PhD 