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Tagged: Area Studies Centers

  • Buckeyes Abroad: Sarah Hohman

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    When Sarah Hohman‘ 23 began a master’s degree at The Ohio State University in August 2024, fresh from a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Moldova, she didn’t expect to be headed overseas again so soon.

  • Buckeyes Abroad: Amelia Webster

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    This past summer, Amelia Webster, a forensic anthropology and biology student at Ohio State University, found herself in the quiet Polish village of Giecz, surrounded by rolling fields and centuries of history buried beneath the soil.

  • Language learning and immersion in Brazil - IPAST 2025

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    The 2025 Intensive Portuguese Abroad for Spanish Teachers (IPAST) Program combines remote Portuguese instruction with a three-week immersive experience abroad.

  • 2025 International Photography Competition opens

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    All Ohio State students, staff, faculty, visiting scholars and alumni are invited to submit photos to the 2025 International Photography Competition.

  • Vibrant celebration of African culture and heritage at annual festival

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    The Center for African Studies partnered with African Studies at Ohio University, Kent State Center for African Studies and Wexner Center for the Arts to host a booth at the Columbus African Festival on July 26-27 in Genoa Park.

  • McClimans, Middle East Studies Center awarded grant for food sovereignty initiative

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    The Seeds of Middle Eastern Culture led by Melinda McClimans, assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC) recently was awarded a $10,000 Documenting Impact Grant by the Office of Outreach and Engagement.

  • A sweeping study of 7,000 years of monuments in South Arabia

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    New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and construction of monuments over time in the face of environmental and cultural forces.

    In a study published today (May 28, 2025) in PLOS One, an international team of archaeologists documents how monuments changed as the climate transitioned from a humid environment to, eventually, an arid desert.

  • Delegation from Ghana visits Ohio State to strengthen sister-city relationship

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    On May 20, the Ohio State Center for African Studies hosted a delegation of ministers from the Government of Ghana to strengthen the Columbus-Accra sister-city relationship and foster additional collaboration between Ohio State and Ghanian institutions.

  • Area Studies Centers award summer FLAS fellowships

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    The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies have awarded $146,494 in summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to 18 students, spanning more than nine graduate programs and six undergraduate majors. Funding for FLAS Fellowships comes from the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act.

  • Global Arts + Humanities grant to support Latinx families engagement in music learning

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    Engaging Latinx parents in their children’s learning through music during their first few years of life is the primary focus of Desde el Principio (from the beginning), a project developed by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the School of Music.