Global Studies Program

Global Studies Program

The Global Studies program offers a multidisciplinary major that focuses on important issues such as the origins and implications of diversity and interdependence among nations, cultures, regions and peoples.

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Program News

Global Studies is pleased to announce that Delaney Demaret’s paper "Extractive Violence in the Amazon Borderlands: Forestry Concessions, Roads, and Indigenous Resistance" was chosen for the Outland Award this year for the best senior seminar paper. 

Hannah Abdelhadi’s paper entitled “The Marcos Dynasty and Martial Law Memory in the Philippines” received an Honorable Mention. 

Global Environment Speaker Series

Speaker Series

Each year the Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability, the Environmental Studies Program, and Global Studies Program partner to bring noteworthy speakers and scholars to Richmond to present lectures related to our global environment. All events are free and open to the public.

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Faculty and Alumni Accomplishments

Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn
Kahn Appointed

Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, was appointed as editor of Contemporary European History, an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarship on European history from 1914 onwards.

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Dr. L. Carol Summers
Summers Presented

Carol Summers, Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies, presented "'No one else can do your duty': War Savings Propaganda and Practices of Australian Citizenship,1939-46" at the 43rd Australian Historical Association Conference.

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Contact Us

Mailing address:
Global Studies Program
Carole Weinstein International Center, Room 304
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: (804) 484-1472
Fax: (804) 484-1577

Program Coordinator: Dr. Yvonne Howell
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Lynn Hardwicke