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FRIT joins French Embassy's Center of Excellence network
Ohio State’s Department of French and Italian (FRIT) received excellent news in early December when the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States invited the department to join its…
New endowed faculty positions, funds established in College in Arts and Sciences
Last month, The Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved the name change of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, among several other significant milestones and philanthropic…
2020 High Points
2020 was daunting and challenging, but the College of Arts and Sciences maintained its high level of excellence and innovation. We put together some of this year's high points that showcased how the…
Understanding the outcome of the 2020 election
"Election 2020: Understanding the Outcome," brings together five experts from the College of Arts and Sciences to discuss the impacts of the recent presidential election, as well as issues concerning…
FRIT offers new major: French and Francophone Studies
The Department of French and Italian has added another interdisciplinary major: French and Francophone Studies. The new major gives students interested in French and Francophone cultures more…
Jerald Walker's <em>How to Make a Slave and Other Essays</em> puts Mad Creek Books on the map
Jerald Walker’s How to Make a Slave and Other Essays was recently named a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Awards, making The Ohio State University Press imprint Mad Creek Books one of the…
Suchland examines links between abolition and modern day slavery
Jennifer Suchland, a 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars and Society Fellow, is researching the links between historical and modern-day slavery in collaboration with the…
Learning with Miss Natalia teaches kids diversity and inclusion
Natalia Colón Alvarez discovered her love of working with kids this summer, and now she's using YouTube as a platform to teach young students about diversity.
Slavery and its legacies: Remembering 1619 and Beyond
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of slavery’s introduction to the U.S., the Department of History launched a lecture series last year called “1619 and Beyond: Explorations in Atlantic Slavery and…