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of SIS undergrads identify as U.S.-born students of colorContact Us
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Rebecca Coughlin
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Alumni
Honing a Global Vision
At SIS, Rosy Chavez-Martinez, SIS/BA ’24, a recipient of the Raynard Family and Andrew Juster Family Scholarships, pursues her interest in security and policy in Latin America.
Course Spotlight
Environment, Community, and EquityFall 2024Â Taught by Professor Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
As a part of this course, students will actively serve with a nonprofit agency or school in the DC area to apply their course knowledge. This course introduces students to social, political economic, (agri)cultural, and epistemic contexts and consequences of what are framed as environmental problems. This entails contextualizing ecological crises within histories of colonialism and anticolonialism and geographies of coloniality and decoloniality, from land defenders to water protectors. Drawing on geopolitical ecology, bioethics, and environmental justice, the class focuses on food and agricultural systems, policies, and equity movements. SIS 296-002
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Professor Spotlight
Professor Jordanna Matlon will teach SIS 340-001 Anthropocene and Crises of Captialism in the Fall 2024 semester.
Funded Opportunity: Clarke Fellowship- US Dept. of State
Funded by the US Department of State, the Clarke DS Fellowship is a two-year graduate fellowship program designed for individuals who want to prusue a master's degree and a career as a Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent in the Foreign Service. Application deadline: April 29, 2024.
Regional Courses Offerings
SIS has increased undergraduate regional course offerings, especially in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.Â
A list of regional course offerings across AU is now available. Cross-check this list with the to identify courses offered during a term.
SIS Student Helps Foster Belonging at AU
Barbara Taylor, SIS/MA '22
I have the opportunity to co-create spaces that shift our worldviews.
Working in the Intergroup Dialogue program at AU’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI), I have learned how to create space for students to explore their identities and grow through the discomfort of addressing difficult topics. Dialogues are also spaces for marginalized communities to engage on pressing issues they face.