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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, April…
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 on…
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. Rudnick…
Isaac Weiner's Essay Receives Award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Isaac Weiner, whose 2023 essay, "Responding to the Dobbs Decision: American Jews & Religious Freedom," received a 2024 Rockower Award from the American…
2024 Annual Departmental Awards
Last week's Comparative Studies departmental awards ceremony and reception once again provided a communal space for celebrating our students, staff, and faculty as we wrapped up the spring 2024…
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth featured on "Now at Ohio State" and the CBS Morning News
Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth joined Wayne Schlingman from the Department of Astronomy to discuss the upcoming total solar eclipse on episode 20 of "Now at Ohio State." Check out the episode, which was…
March Awards Season and Other Great News to Share!
Mark Anthony Arceño was named one of six recipients of the Arts & Sciences Staff Advisory Council's Outstanding Staff Award! Mark Anthony continues to remain grateful for this Department's…
Looking Back: Davis Colloquium 2023
On October 27, 2023, the Department of Comparative Studies was pleased to host a day-long colloquium on the theme of Christianity and Economy. Over fifty attendees gathered in the Ohio Union to learn…