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On Wednesday, April 24th, we held our annual departmental awards ceremony celebrating all of the incredible work our faculty, lecturers, and students have done in the past year.We continue to…

The Writing Across the Curriculum graduate consultant team has selected Caroline Toy for an honorable mention in the award for Outstanding Writing Instruction. They received a number of extremely…

Professor Barry Shank discusses his latest book, which explores the power of music to create community, along with a history of comparative studies and how greeting cards maintain social connections…

Join two of our Comparative Studies Graduate students, Seth Gaiters and Caroline Toy, as they present on their research topics.The Showcase will feature “lightning talks” by humanities and arts…

Graduate student Sarah Craycraft has been awarded a Title VI funded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for this coming summer. She’ll be studying Bulgarian through Sofia University!…

Julia Watson, professor emerita in the Department of Comparative Studies, gave a lecture on “Between the Edge and the Abyss: The Serial Performances of Anthony Bourdain” and participated in a panel…

David Horn has received the President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service, which annually recognizes up to three tenure-track, clinical or research faculty members whose…

Comparative Studies' faculty member, Robert Livingston, is leading a new initiative at Ohio State called Food Futures: Design + Comparative Studies Teaching Cluster.This initiative is in relation to…

Congrats to former PhD student, Rebecca Adelman, on her recent publication of 'Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War'."In the United States, the early years of the war on terror…