Border Studies Program

Happenings

  • Read the participants' updates from the Borderlands and follow their experiences throughout the semester at our Border Studies blog.
  • Senior Peace and Global Studies students devote their final project to "Stories of a Border: A Living Museum" for their Senior Capstone Experience course.
  • Resources page is updated with links to recent BSP students' final projects. Books, zines, and cds based on their experience in the borderlands have all been produced by recent participants.
  • Glen Kuecker, Professor of History at De Pauw University and member of Border Studies Committee for Counsel, organized a panel and presented on Immigration Policy at the conference on Undocumented Hispanic Migration held at Connecticut College Oct. 16-18, 2009. Howard Lamson and Patty Lamson from Earlham College attended the Conference.
  • Congratulations to Eva Jimenez, an Earlham College senior and 2006 BSP alum, who was awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2009-2010 to research immigration in Peru, Ecuador and Spain! Read more about the Watson Fellowship and Eva's project.
  • Attention BSP Alums: We want to hear from you! Take a few moments to fill out the alumni survey.
Follow Border_Studies on Twitter

How To Apply

How To Apply | Scenes From the Field | Blog | Student Work | Suggested Books | Websites

 

Border Mural

Application deadlines for Border Studies Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 is March 15, 2011. If there are still spaces available for the spring program, there will be a second deadline of October 15, 2011.

You may apply by downloading the application (see below), by requesting an application from the program at borders@earlham.edu, or by checking in the Study Abroad Office on your campus.

Note: The Spanish writing sample is required only for the Spring Program applicants.

Please download the application, fill it out electronically, and mail or fax it back to:

 

The Border Studies Program
Earlham College
International Programs Office, Drawer 202
Richmond, Indiana 47374
Phone: 765-983-1424
Fax: 765-983-1553
borders@earlham.edu

Campus Contacts

The following are program representatives that students should contact on their campus to learn more about the program.

Albion | Deborah Kanter, Julia Medina

Antioch | Andrzej Bloch, Kim Sims

Carleton | Helena Kauffman, Silvia Lopez

Denison | Joanna Mitchell, Trey Proctor, Andrew Law

DePauw | Glen Kuecker, Meryl Altman, Kate Knaul, Angela Castañeda

Earlham | Howard Lamson, Patty Lamson, Joanna Swanger

Hope | Jane Dickie, Lorna Hernández-Jarvis, Claudia André, Amy Otis

Kalamazoo | Joseph Brockington, Angela Gross, Laura Barraclough

Kenyon | Joseph Klesner, Marne Ausec, Jennifer Johnson, Víctor Rodrígues-Nuñez

Lewis and Clark| Elliot Young, Lucrecia Choto

Macalester | Paul Nelson, Paul Dosh

Oberlin | Steven Volk, Ellen Sayles, Pablo Mitchell

Ohio Wesleyan | Juan Armando Rojas, Blake Michaels

Vassar | Leslie Offutt, Joseph Nevins, Susan Stephens

Wabash | Rick Warner, Dan Rogers, Jane Hardy

Wooster | Pam Frese, Rikki Palmer, Jessica DuPlaga


How to Apply Scenes from the Field How to Apply How to Apply Scenes from the Field Scenes from the Field