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Spirituality and Technoscience in UFO Contact Modalities: A Talk with Patrick Dunn
On September 29, 2025, Patrick Dunn, PhD Student in comparative studies and recipient of the 2025 LLES Award for the Study of Myth, presented his research on how the modern UFO phenomenon has been…
Hiring Assistant Professor in Digital Cultures and Ethnography
The Department of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University invites applications for a position in Digital Cultures and Ethnography at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor. The field…
STS Book Talks
Dr. Liliana Gil has organized a series of book talks -- centering around science, medicine, and technology -- as part of the graduate seminar in Technology and Culture (COMPSTD 8843). These talks…
Call for Proposals: 2025 Undergraduate Colloquium and Career Roundtable
The Department of Comparative Studies invites its undergraduate majors and minors to present and discuss their work with peers and faculty members in a colloquium, which will be held on Friday,…
Mellon Foundation Awards $460,000 to the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab
Please join us in congratulating Dr. fabian romero, who along with their colleagues of the Black, Indigenous, & Trans of Color Histories Lab was recently awarded a Mellon Foundation grant. And…
Welcoming a New Academic Year
As the Olympic Games continue in Paris this summer, we're off to a strong start behind the scenes in our preparations for the upcoming autumn term. Most notably, Philip Armstrong officially passed…
Alumnus's recent book receives book prize
Please join us in congratulating Comparative Studies alumnus Dr. Brian Michael Murphy (2014), whose book We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (UNC Press) won the 2024 Lois P.…