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In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange announces its 2026-27 Arts Creation Grants awardees.
The Global Arts + Humanities — in collaboration with the Office of Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences — is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026-27 Community-Engaged Grant…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our Graduate Professional Development grants. These graduate professional development positions aim to:
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With support from the Global Arts + Humanities (GAH) and Wexner Center for the Arts, Puja Batra-Wells (Associate Director of GAH) and Harmony Bench’s (Dance) edited volume, Archival…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce our 2026-27 Society of Fellows faculty and Graduate Team Fellows awards. The incoming cohorts include fourteen fellows from the…
"Artificial Intelligence: Propositions from the Arts + Humanities" is a series of lectures by artists and scholars whose work foregrounds the ethical obligations arising from the…
Hasan Kwame Jeffries (History) — director of GAH's Difficult Subjects: K-12 Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Institute — has been inducted into the Ohio Civil Rights Commission's Hall of Fame…
What makes culture portable? How do cultural forms, objects, ideas and practices travel and adapt to contexts? What meanings arise from these forms in motion? What aesthetic strategies emerge…
"Artificial Intelligence: Propositions from the Arts + Humanities" is a series of lectures by artists and scholars whose work foregrounds the ethical obligations arising from the…
This autumn, the Global Arts + Humanities will host two events featuring Christine R. Yano, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
LECTURE | Pink Globalization: Hello…
Global Arts + Humanities Associate Director Puja Batra-Wells has received a 2025 Distinguished Staff Award!
Batra-Wells is a driving force behind the Global Arts + Humanities. For over six…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce our 2025-26 Society of Fellows faculty awards. The incoming cohort includes faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences with…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2025-26 Centers + Institutes Grants competition. This funding enhances the university’s capacity for cross-disciplinary…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our Graduate Professional Development grants. These graduate professional development positions aim to:
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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-26 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD or MFA…
Graduate alumni are using their skills in many lines of work. Career allies can support graduate students as they discern what career path is right for them. "Flight Paths" is a series of alumni…
On December 6, 2024, over 80 faculty, students and community members from city government and public schools participated in the Society of Fellows symposium: Care | Culture | Justice…
Graduate alumni are using their skills in many lines of work. Career allies can support graduate students as they discern what career path is right for them. “Flight Paths” is series of alumni…
Graduate alumni are using their skills in many lines of work. Career allies can support graduate students as they discern what career path is right for them. “Flight Paths” is series of alumni…
The technological advances and broad applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have profoundly impacted nearly every aspect of human society. But while AI may offer potential solutions to some…
How Sharing Advising Offers Better Skill Development for Ohio State Graduate Students
Graduate alumni are using their skills in many lines of work. Career allies can support…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s Graduate Professional Development Grants support humanities and arts MFA and PhD students in a range of exciting graduate assistantship positions…
This project received funding support from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
This autumn, Ohio State faculty, librarians and alumni and the…
The Imagined Futures is an initiative of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme led by Faculty Director Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Music)
Today’s graduate alumni are choosing…
With support from the Global Arts + Humanities and Wexner Center for the Arts, Momar Ndiaye, Amy Shuman, and Wendy Hesford’s edited volume, Human Rights on the Move,…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the seven recipients of the 2024-25 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD or…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce our 2024-25 Society of Fellows faculty awards. The incoming cohort includes faculty from the College of Arts and…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the well-deserved promotion of Puja Batra-Wells to the role of associate director.
Over the past six years, Puja's…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme — in collaboration with the Office of Engagement in the College of Arts and Sciences — announces a special grants initiative around the theme of …
“Care is linked to justice because without care there is no reason to value justice and no possibility of its realization. It is also a way of understanding…
This project received support from the Global Arts + Humanities
Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University…
With support from the Global Arts + Humanities and Wexner Center for the Arts, Momar Ndiaye, Amy Shuman, and Wendy Hesford’s forthcoming edited volume, Human Rights on the Move (2024),…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce its inaugural 2023-2024 Society of Fellows Undergraduate Research Apprentices.
This competitive research program provides upper-level…
The following interview of Jacob Risinger was conducted by GAHDT Graduate Administrative Assistant, Eileen Horansky (PhD student, English).
Jake Risinger…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our Graduate Professional Development grants. These graduate professional development positions aim to:
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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2023-2024 Centers + Institutes Grants competition.
This funding enhances the university’s capacity…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to release our 2022-23 Year in Review. This edition spotlights "Impact as Connection" in addition to highlighting the people…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is thrilled to announce two new leadership faculty fellows for 2023-24. These faculty fellows and will advise on priorities and opportunities…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2023-24 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD or…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce our 2023-24 Society of Fellows faculty awards. The incoming cohort includes faculty from the College of Arts and…
The following interview of Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth was conducted by GAHDT Graduate Administrative Assistant, Eileen Horansky (PhD student, English).
Jasper…
The following interview of Lyn Tjon Soei Len was conducted by GAHDT Graduate Administrative Assistant, Eileen Horansky (PhD student, English).
Lyn Tjon Soei…
As part of the Interdisciplinary Research Forum, co-sponsored by TDAI and the Sustainability Institute, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme led a panel on “Arts and…
After a year-long process of collecting faculty and staff ideas, members of the Global Arts + Humanities leadership team and Advisory Committee have identified the 2023-24 Society of…
The Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) — a 2020 recipient of the GAHDT Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Grant — is looking forward to facilitating a record number of…
Faculty Fellow Brian Harnetty is releasing his new album, Words and Silences, on Friday, October 7, 2022.
Words and Silences is a sonic portrait of Thomas Merton, a monk,…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce its newest program, the Imagined Futures: Graduate Professional Development Initiative, led by Director Danielle…
The K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration, a GAHDT-funded project, is pleased to present “Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce that Faculty Director Wendy S. Hesford has received the President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. The award recognizes up…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our Graduate Professional Development grants. These graduate professional development positions aim to:
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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2022-23 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD or…
GAHDT’s Discovery Field Schools are faculty-led, interdisciplinary, experiential-learning programs offered as one-credit undergraduate courses that take students to domestic destinations to learn…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce our 2022-23 Society of Fellows faculty awards. The incoming cohort includes faculty from the College of Arts and…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce our 2022 series of Post-MFA/Postdoctoral Researcher roundtable webinars, which features presentations and moderated…
The Ohio State University’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and Wexner Center for the Arts are pleased to announce a collaborative new book series, forthcoming from The Ohio State…
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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme seeks a 25% Graduate Administrative Associate (GAA)…
The Ohio State University Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and Translational Data Analytics Institute are pleased to support a new two-year post-MFA/postdoctoral researcher position in…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce that Faculty Director Wendy S. Hesford has received a three-year reappointment!
Wendy S. Hesford:…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce our autumn lineup of events, including our Society of Fellows Digital Dialogues series and accompanying graduate workshops. All…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2021-2022 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce the 2021-2022 Society of Fellows faculty cohort. The incoming cohort's seven internal fellows come to us from six departments at…
On May 12, 2021 we witnessed the birth of AWANA Red de Artistas y Gestores Interculturales Comunitarios – AWANA Network of Intercultural Community Artists and Cultural…
Each year the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection is recognized by way of the Whitten…
Registration recently opened for the Global and Popular Music Experience, a new addition to the many outreach programs offered by the School of Music.
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The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme is pleased to announce its newest Discovery Field School: Border Issues and Activism in Ohio, which will be co-led by
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce the recipients of our Graduate Professional Development grants. These graduate professional development positions aim to:
Embed graduate…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce the 2021-2022 Society of Fellows faculty cohort. The incoming cohort's seven internal fellows come to us from six departments at…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2021-2022 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. The incoming fellows, currently pursuing either PhD…
Processing the COVID-19 Pandemic through Poetry is a series of events using poetry to process the COVID-19 pandemic. This is being organized by Zoë Brigley in the English department in April and…
Application Deadline Extended:
May 1, 2021
The Center for Historical Research, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies and the East Asian Studies Center — with the…
Congratulations K'acha Willaykuna Co-PI Elvia Andía Grágeda, who in 2019 won the Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala en Lengua Originaria, a national literary prize in Bolivia. Ms. Andía…
We would like to spotlight Professor Elvia Andía Grágeda, the Quechua instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University, who in 2019 became first…
Greetings friends!
In November of 2019 The Ohio State University hosted the 5th Annual Quechua Alliance Meeting, an event that gathers Quechua language speakers and students…
The exhibition Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment — supported by a Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme grant— is on view through…
Application Deadline:
April 5, 2021
Supported by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, the Wexner Center for the Arts is again offering an array of…
The following interview of Michelle Wibbelsman was conducted by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Program Manager, Puja Batra-Wells. Wibbelsman is an associate…
Dancing with Devils Interview with Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros and Leonardo Carrizo
The Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mask Traditions…
One of our Co-PIs Professor Richard Fletcher will be hosting a monthly radio show on the Columbus-based community internet radio site Verge.fm called dear fellow…
The K'acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration is excited to announce their support and collaboration with the Columbus Printed Arts…
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Monday, November 15, 4-5 p.m. OPENING REMARKS | Dana Renga | Divisional Dean of Arts and Humanities
Portrayals of Andean and Amazonian Indigeneity in Children's Films
In summer 2020 Honors Spanish Majors Cara Satullo, Emily Montenegro, and Juhee Park presented their…
K’acha Willaykuna’s 2020-2021 collaboration with U.S. artist Kandis Williams and Brazilian artist Aline Baiana in the commission of a
The K’acha Willaykuna Knowledge Equity and Legacy Preservation Working Group, led by Co-PIs Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (Latin American, Iberian and Latinx…
Student Curators: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection
Ohio State’s Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection serves as a teaching…
Our Distance Unlearning Hour is a virtual development of K’acha Willaykuna’s spring 2020 Our Unlearning Hour and an offshoot of our autumn 2019 This Decoloniality? Reading Group.…
The Global Arts + Humanities is pleased to announce our newest initiative, the Graduate Professional Development Program. The purpose of this program is to advance the mission and…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce our 2020-2021 Centers and Institutes Grants. The purpose of these grants is to advance the mission and goals of the GAHDT by…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce our inaugural 2020-2021 Society of Undergraduate Fellows. The inaugural cohort consists of 11 students representing 11 different…
Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce a new funding opportunity critical to our mission: supporting cross-disciplinary graduate research and creative practices in alignment with our…
The Global Arts + Humanities is proud to announce the 2020-2021 Society of Fellows. The theme for our inaugural cohort is Human Rights: Pasts and Futures.
The Global Arts + Humanities Graduate Team Fellowships are financial awards made on the basis of academic merit through a division-wide competition. These fellowships are given to recognize the…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme has been named a 2020 #MillionsofChangemakers finalist by Ashoka U for its broad-based support of meaningful community…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce that Faculty Director Wendy S. Hesford has received a two-year reappointment!
Wendy S. Hesford:…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme has received two Indigo Design Awards in the category of Design for Social Change!
GOLD AWARD: Integrated Graphic Design…
By Jamie Wise, undergraduate major in sociology (recipient of a Migration, Mobility and Immobility grant)
How do you remember a genocide? Forty…
By Sophia Enriquez, GAH graduate team fellow and PhD student in the School of Music
There is a booming…
By Program Manager Puja Batra-Wells 2019-2020 Graduate Team Fellows
(Top left to right) Jacklyn Brickman…
By PhD Candidate Hannah Vidmar, Department of African and African American Studies
It was nearing 7:30 p.m. on a Saturday night in July when I found myself in a bajaj,…
By graduate student Darcy C. Benson, Department of History
I’m honored to have been awarded a research grant from the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project to fund my…
The following interview of Amy Youngs was conducted by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Program Manager Puja Batra-Wells. Youngs…
By Senior Lecturer Danielle V. Schoon (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Associate Professor Ryan Skinner (School of Music) and Danielle Fosler-Lussier (School of Music)…
By PhD Student Clara Carolyne Fachini Zanirato, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
The importance of research on migration studies has never been so high in the world as…
By PhD Candidate Sara Halpern, Department of History
Daniella Doron is a senior lecturer in History at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash…
In this podcast, Ohio State PhD Candidate Nikki Freeman interviews Daniella Doron about her forthcoming book, Young Border Crossers: Jewish Youth during the Ages of Migration, which…
By PhD Student Julian Marcel Baldemira, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
For decades, immigrants from Cuba have arrived on U.S. soil and established themselves in Florida…
By PhD Student Shawntel Barreiro, Department of Linguistics
Over the past year, my research has focused on first- and second-generation Salvadorans who currently reside in…
By PhD Candidate Malia Lee Womack, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
In what ways do international human rights (for…
By Associate Professor Hannah Kosstrin, Department of Dance, and affiliate faculty for the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies…
By Sigma Delta Pi — Capítulo Mu Lamda (The Ohio State University)
El Capítulo Mu Lambda de la Universidad Estatal de Ohio ha sido muy activo durante estos últimos cuatro…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is proud to announce our two most recent faculty hires: Jessica Delgado and Víctor Espinosa.
On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, over 50 guests from the Ohio State community participated in an event called “KACHKA: An Immigrant Food Experience.”
Award-winning chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales…
This field school was funded by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme. Read the full story, written by Josh Friesen and published in the College of Arts and Sciences'…
This post is a book overview of Un Siècle de Réfugiés. Photographier l’exil [A Century of Refugees: Photographing Exile] by Bruno Cabanes, professor and Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and the K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration are pleased to announce the residency of
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On October 17, 2019, Becca Heller, founder and co-director of the International Refugee…
The following interview of Christa Teston was conducted by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Faculty Director Wendy S. Hesford. Teston is an…
By Assistant Professor Vera Brunner-Sung, Department of Theatre
(Caption for photo, right: Meeting with Hmong American artists and…
By Professor Roger Beebe, Department of Art
My experimental documentary Amazonia started with a simple question: How does the…
By Graduate Student Daniela Edmeier, Department of History
To say that France has a complicated history with ethnic difference would be an understatement. Pick up any…
Kapka Kassabova will visit Ohio State and discuss her book, Border, during the Moving Subjects Week.
Internationally…
By Graduate Student Paloma Pinillos Chavez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Thanks to the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project’s support, I…
The following post is a description of a video interview recorded on August 30, 2019 in May Mergenthaler's German 3102 course. The post is written by May Mergenthaler, assistant…
By Graduate Student Luana Lamberti Nunes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
My research took place in Helvécia (Bahia) for about a month. The community of Helvécia is an…
By Graduate Student Tatsiana Shchurko, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project supported my research…
Call for Proposals 2019-2020
Livable Futures is a community of practice -- a grassroots network of artists, scholars and activist seeking to share resources and foster creative solutions to…
By Lecturer Danielle V. Schoon, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
In 2016, the European Union and Turkey implemented an agreement to regulate ‘irregular…
Every year, the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs highlights a postdoctoral scholar who has demonstrated outstanding mentoring of junior trainees through leadership and support. This scholar’s…
By Associate Professor Anna Babel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
This summer, the Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project helped fund an exploratory research trip…
In May 2020, the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme will launch its inaugural offering of English 4554: Activism in Multiethnic London — Refugees in Crisis. With the city of London as its…
Heeding the call to help create a world where everyone is a change agent, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme joins other leading academic institutions, ecosystem building organizations and…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is thrilled to announce three new faculty fellows for 2019-2020. These faculty fellows join us from the Departments of Design, English and Dance and…
The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme is pleased to introduce our new Program Coordinator, Breanne LeJeune. Breanne will provide tactical and operational support and assist with the…
The Global Arts + Humanities Graduate Team Fellowships are financial awards made on the basis of academic merit through a division-wide competition. These fellowships are given to recognize the…
The idea behind the symposium was to think together about the work and meanings that borders perform in the world and to combine scholarly reflections on mobility with artistic performance,…
This past February, Prof. Teresa Fiore of Montclair State University engaged OSU students, staff, and faculty as MMI’s first scholar in residence. We invited Prof. Fiore for a series of events…
We’d like to draw your attention to a new Call for Proposals for a New Faculty Position in the area of human and cultural dimensions of food, food justice or food security…
Sona Kazemi PhD, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Global Migration, Disability, and Medical Humanities in the Department of English at the Ohio State University received an Zola Award honorable…
On stage and in community performance workshops for youths and adults, the Albany Park Theater Project challenges inequality and racism by asking people to bear witness to stories that might…
On Thursday, February 7th, five postdoctoral researchers funded by a grant from the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Discovery Theme facilitated a roundtable discussion on Interdisciplinary…
Professor Wendy S. Hesford, Department of English, and Faculty Director for the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme has been named Ohio Eminent Scholar in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy…
Global Arts and Humanities is excited to share the following grants and fellowship opportunities in an electronic brochure. Please use the Issuu widget below to navigate our newsletter, or visit…
The Department of English featured a spotlight on Professor Wendy S. Hesford's research interests. Read more about Professor Hesford's work.