Center for Global Study and Engagement

Alec G. Hargreaves, Professor of Transcultural French Studies at Florida State University, will speak about A “French Intifada”? Ethnic Relations in Contemporary France. 

The Mediterranean Migration project connects our centers in Málaga and Toulouse with our partner program in Morocco to examine the creation of transnational communities; ethnic and religious tensions and cooperation; and philosophical orientations toward diversity.

Students in the Global Scholars Honors program conducted research on the effects of ocean acidification--often referred to as the "evil twin of climate change"--and they continue their work back on campus, preparing their data and findings for publication.

  Professors Michael Fratantuono and David Sarcone, both from Dickinson's international business and management department, think big.  When they received a grant from the US Department of Defense's Strategic Studies Institute to host a workshop on cross-sector collaboration in the interest sustainable development they wasted no time in drafting themes for the three day symposium and inviting distinguished leaders and scholars from across the globe to come to Carlisle for the academic event. 

Students and faculty at Dickinson and Akita University in Japan team up to tackle rural community health and quality of life, a 21st-century challenge with local and global dimensions.

In Peru, AJ Wildey '13 explored the fate of traditional agrarian beliefs and customs in the face modern corporate farming.  In Bolivia, she investigated tensions surrounding a national intercultural education initiative.

Dickinson was awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. State Department to train emerging leaders on strategies for managing and mediating water conflict.