2021-2025
Finding new spaces between traditional epistemological structurings
The Knowledge Formations Certificate, a master's level certificate created by the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge in 2023, began two years earlier as a Concentration within the Divison of Social Science at the University of Chicago. In 2024, the program graduated its first cohort. Students who have completed the certificate are well prepared to cross disciplinary boundaries as they conceptualize research for potential doctoral level study.
As of the 2025-2026 school year, the Knowledge Formations Certificate no longer is offered. However, it is our desire and promise to highlight the thinking of this year's students, who entered the program enthusiastically, committed themselves to completing certificate requirements, and have expanded and deepened their intellectual perspectives.
"By taking the time to be slow and to think without production and applying my knowledge of (the) filmmaking process to research, I achieved the best academic work I have done thus far. "
Marc Leroux-Parra, 2024 Graduate
Students completing the Knowledge Formations Certificate in the 2024-2025 school year are eligible to submit their thesis for this year's Thesis Award Competition. Contact srwhite@uchicago.edu for information on submission guidelines.
One of three requirements for the Knowledge Formations Certificate is a short blog post on a year-long theme.
During the 2024-2025 school year students gathered in "The Coop" located on the third floor of 5720 Woodlawn.
Students met near the end of Spring Quarter to present their research projects.