2025
What's Happening
10 junior and senior fellows have been selected as ambassadors to the program.
Date: October 15, 2025
In the News
Grenier brings a background in urban planning, conflict resolution, and program management to her role as the ULI's program manager.
Date: July 21, 2025
2024
Departmental Fellows
International studies fellows are active ambassadors throughout the year.
Date: November 12, 2024
In the News
Professor Diana Mafe says "Wakonda Forever" breaks a mold but its "success does not mean a wider shift in the industry."
Date: January 10, 2024
2023
Faculty
Perhaps the most consequential effect of ChatGPT is generative AI's ability to function as the oracle of our times, says professor Sangeet Kumar.
Date: November 25, 2023
Departmental Fellows
We are happy to announce the 11 selected International Studies Senior and Junior Fellows this year.
Date: September 25, 2023
Departmental Fellows
Congratulations to the new fellowship awardees!
Date: April 28, 2023
Lectures & Discussions
Professor Raef Zriek, a human rights scholar, will be presenting on “The Palestinian Question as a Jewish Question” on April 6, 2023
Date: March 23, 2023
Faculty
"Wakanda Forever" lifts up Black women—but only so far, says Professor Diana Mafe.
Date: March 22, 2023
Lectures & Discussions
The Communication Colloquium is hosting Raka Shome to talk on “Cleansing the Nation: Hindu Nationalism, Gender and the "Clean India" campaign.
Date: March 9, 2023
Film Screenings
International Studies is hosting the 18th International Film Festival this upcoming March. Screenings will have Q&As hosted by Denison faculty.
Date: February 22, 2023
Film Screenings
Denison's Third Annual Middle East Film Festival in Herrick Hall on Thursdays at 6pm during the month of February.
Date: January 30, 2023
Lectures & Discussions
Four International Studies Faculty have joined forces to present and discuss "Geopolitics of the 2022 FIFA World Cup" on January 26th.
Date: January 25, 2023
2022
Denison Magazine
Yazmina Salahuddin-Robinson’s intense curiosity about languages and cultures drew her to the international studies major.
Date: July 25, 2022
Alumni
Sara Abou Rashed '21 shares how her mother’s cookie recipe helped her form a friendship with an unlikely neighbor in a Columbus performance.
Date: May 18, 2022
Awards & Honors
As a Fulbright grantee, Sarah Schubert '21 will teach English and serve as a cultural ambassador in Mexico.
Date: May 16, 2022
Lectures & Discussions
Join a series of events taking place March 21 - March 25 recognizing 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Date: March 24, 2022
2021
Featured News
Denison students will take the opportunity to do in-country research on transnational migration in Japan.
Date: October 4, 2021
Awards & Honors
Sara Abou Rashed: International Studies, English major and Middle East and North African Studies minor was selected as a 2021 President's Medalist.
Date: May 26, 2021
Awards & Honors
Fatimah AlZahraa Elghazawi, International Studies and French double major, was selected as a 2021 President's Medalist, and Recent Student Trustee.
Date: May 26, 2021
Featured News
The Denison University Board of Trustees has elected Fatimah Elghazawi ‘21 to serve as the newest Recent Student Trustee.
Date: April 21, 2021
Announcements & Updates
Denison has announced the student commencement speaker for the Class of 2021: Sara Abou Rashed '21. The title her speech is "Come Celebrate with Me."
Date: April 13, 2021
Denison Magazine
Adam Cromwell ’21 looks at the role soccer plays in national identity.
Date: January 1, 2021
2020
Featured News
Denison University announces faculty who have been promoted to full professor.
Date: May 21, 2020
Awards & Honors
Caroline Cary '20, an International Studies major, was awarded Denison's President's Medal, the college's highest student honor.
Date: May 4, 2020
Featured News
Denisonian Sara Abou Rashed ’21 is a 2020 Truman Finalist and one of 18 students nationwide to be awarded the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship.
Date: April 24, 2020
Featured News
Denison University is among the schools with the highest number of Peace Corps volunteers for 2020.
Date: February 27, 2020
In the News
Sara Abou Rashed's one-woman show, "Map of Myself," premieres in Philadelphia.
Date: February 18, 2020
2019
In the News
Usman Gul '13, co-founder & CEO of Airlift, raised Pakistan’s largest seed money package within six months of launching his company.
Date: December 4, 2019
Lectures & Discussions
A round-table discussion moderated by Professor Yang (Denison University) with Guest Speakers from Kenyon College and University of Notre Dame.
Date: November 15, 2019
