Global Studies Center

 
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

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

Intended Audience:
K-12

The theme of Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text is explored through Richard Conyngham's All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa. This graphic anthology tells six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid.

Intended Audience:
K-12

In this installment of our Global Issues Through Literature (GILS) series, participants convene to discuss the novel, Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada. 
The theme of this year's GILS is Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text. 

Intended Audience:
K-12

The theme of "Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text" is explored through "Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling," a complex story of four decades of prison expansion and its corrosive effect on generation of Americans and its implications for American democracy.

Outreach at Global Studies Center

Catherine Fratto
Assistant Director for Outreach
Global Studies Center