The Cities: Territories and Identities Graduate Program maintains a single area of ​​concentration: Social Studies and their Humanities, which aims to understand the relational aspects between cities, territories and social agents, concerned with understanding the expressed identity complexities cultures, languages ​​and arts of the societies studied. PPGCITI is structured in two lines of research, namely:

Research Line 1: Public Policies, Social Movements and Territories - Studies of public policies and their historical, social and cultural relations; in the identification of the constitutive conflicts of cities and territories, observed through the description, analysis, documentation and research of primary sources. This line of study includes political, sociological, anthropological, geographic and educational phenomena.

Line of Research 2: Identities: Languages, Practices and Representations - Studies of social and human practices and power relations, from the perspective of memory and history, individual and / or collective, with an emphasis on understanding the identity constructions and representations materialized in culture, education, language and art of the social groups studied.