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Global Studies Center

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The Global Studies Center is a dynamic and innovative program that is one of an elite group of seven global centers funded by the US Department of Education. We seek to promote critical thinking and practical engagement with the world through the interdisciplinary study of transnational processes. We emphasize the connections, divisions, disruptions, inequalities, and productive possibilities these processes engender across time and space. We foster innovative research, rigorous study, and thoughtful practice through our collaborations with staff, students, faculty, and community partners locally and around the world, creating diverse and inclusive spaces for intellectual growth and debate

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Global Studies Center
Services Offered: 
Guest Speakers
High School Student Events
Internships
Professional Development Workshops
School Visits

Resources

Here is a sample of materials generated by the Global Studies Center or as a result of programming in which they participated.

Video

Global Migrations: Political, Economic, and Climatic Changes
Intended Audience:
Higher Education, Faculty, K-12, Post-Secondary

This faculty professional development conference explores the topic of migration today through the lens of politics, economics, and climatic changes. The following recordings from the conference are available:

File Global Migrations Faculty PD Conference Welcome & Introduction, File “Migration, Conflict, Climate Change & Economic Inequalities...” by Dr. Eleanor Gordon, File Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang, “White Enclosures of the Transatlantic: Migration, Race, and Coloniality”, File Dr Meredith Oyen, “The Challenge of Chinese Migration across the U S Southern Border, File Dr. Innocent Badasu: African Migration Experiences & the Socio Political Conundrum for Social Change, File Global Migrations: Political, Economic, and Climatic Changes Faculty PD Conference
Global Sustainability Amazonia
Intended Audience:
K-12, Post-Secondary

The lectures from this faculty development workshop provide an opportunity to learn about issues related to Amazonia, particularly development, sustainability and conservation.  

File Global Sustainability Amazonia conference recording sessions 2-5
Interdisciplinary Global Educators (IGE) working group 2021
Intended Audience:
K-12

 
The Interdisciplinary Global Educators (IGE) working group provides a week-long opportunity for educators to work across disciplines with fellow colleagues to globalize a unit, lesson, or curriculum module or to develop a new curriculum that incorporates a global perspsective into the topic. This model invites students to examine political, economic, social, cultural, and ecological...

File IGE 2021 Dr Goodheart Introduction, File IGE 2021 Purple Hibiscus and Things Fall Apart by Maura Doyle, File IGE 2021 Cindy McNulty presentation, File IGE Ellis 3rd and 4th grade teachers on Immigration, File IGE educators The Global Lens of Myths Through Time curriculum, File IGE Sewickley Academy Gameification for Modern World History curriculum

Outreach at Global Studies Center

Catherine Fratto
Assistant Director for Outreach
Global Studies Center
Contact Catherine by email