What do you do when a loved one mysteriously disappears and your government won’t investigate? What do you do when this happens over 61,000 times? This happened in Mexico, and…
Deborah Jane, IGS outreach coordinator, is dedicated to closing the US educational achievement gap. She designed a study tour of Finland for US teachers to learn how Finland…
Joseph Rojas learned abroad in three countries and three languages. He discusses how his experiences in Brazil, Venezuela, and France informed his career path. “Adaptability…
How can the social sciences learn from the humanities? Global studies and anthropology professor, Stuart McLean, bridges the gap between the two in his book Fictionalizing…
According to undergraduate Anishaa Kamesh, child trafficking is “not what you see in ‘Taken,’ or what you see on 'Law and Order.'” As one of the first recipients of the Fraser…
University of Minnesota faculty and students researching human rights received a $325,000 grant to conduct research and draft policy recommendations for national and…
African Voices of Paris is a four-part documentary series that highlights the lives of immigrants of African origin living in Paris. Director of the African Studies Initiative…
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from different cultures, specifically non-western culture. Sofia Logan has studied in Ecuador, Cuba, India, and Brazil. All four times…