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Cooking with MA... Mark Anthony That Is
Academic Program Coordinator Mark Anthony Arceño led a virtual cooking demonstration on Thursday, March 4th, via Zoom with graduate students Emma Cobb, Sarah Craycraft, Rhiar Kanouse, Nicole…

Kati Fitzgerald has been Awarded a Postdoctoral Position at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University!
Congratulations to Kati Fitzgerald, who has been awarded a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. Kati defended her dissertation last year titled “No Pure…

Mark Anthony Named an Ohio Wines VIP Ambassador!
Some exciting and fun news, Department of Comparative Studies Academic Program Coordinator Mark Anthony Arceño was selected among 384 applicants to be one of Ohio Wines' VIP…

Professor Dan DiPiero Contributes to Wexner Exhibition Titled Climate Changing
Recently, Comparative Studies Professor Dan DiPiero created a playlist as part of the Wexner Art exhibit titled Climate Changing. Although he started the playlist back in February of 2020, it…

Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Toward Truth & Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes Awarded Grant for Racial Justice
The Department is excited to announce that John Low is a co-PI on Stepping Out & Stepping Up: Toward Truth & Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes, which has…

A Letter to Comparative Studies Majors
Dear Undergraduate Majors,
On behalf of all the faculty and staff in Comparative Studies, we would like to welcome you back to the new academic year.…

Professor Ashley Perez is a guest on the "Voices of Excellence" Podcast!
In a recent episode of the "Voices of Sounds from Arts and Science" podcast Professor Perez is a guest! On the episode she talks about the ethical significance of reading and how fiction shapes a…

Congratulations Spencer Dew for Being Awarded the 2020 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions
Congratulations associate faculty member Spencer Dew whose book, The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali, was awarded the 2020 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best…

Congratulations Leighla Khansari For Her Dissertation "Constancy, Race, and Religious Virtue: The Representation of Muslim Women in English Early Modern Drama"!
This past Tuesday Leighla Khansari defended her dissertation, "Constancy, Race, and Religious Virtue: The Representation of Muslim Women in English Early Modern Drama." Her committee…