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Border Studies

Location: Tucson, AZ Experience Type: Career-Discerning Experiences / Off-Campus Program / Social Justice Work / Wilderness/Outdoor Leadership

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Program themes

The Border Studies Program explores salient topics of our time:

  • transnational migration
  • ​neo-liberal globalization
  • the militarization of policing
  • struggles for environmental justice
  • ethnic studies and gender studies
  • indigenous rights
  • language justice
  • community-building in diverse regions
  • organizing, activism, and movement building

“​This program is life-changing and something I will hold in my heart and mind forever.”

Key Program Elements

The southern Arizona borderlands are defined by intense contestation around a host of issues that are coming to define the 21st century. In this context, we have created a structured, dynamic, semester-long program that allows students an immersive engagement with:

  • hands-on experience in contemporary justice struggles
  • an expansive curriculum that values grassroots knowledge
  • an approach that challenges students to understand and articulate the context and implications of their own positionalities
  • homestays with diverse, local families
  • community-based internships in grassroots and/or non-profit organizations
  • short and overnight excursions throughout the Borderlands region, including Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and the Mexican state of Sonora
  • an intentional community of critical thinkers, learners, and activists
  • a rigorous academic curriculum

Benefits

The unique combination of coursework, field studies, and travel seminars create an outstanding opportunity for you to deepen your understanding of your own positionalities in relation to space, a multitude of communities, and their particular struggles for social justice. Excursions also allow you to explore academic themes such as migration, the global economy, environmental degradation, development, sustainability, transnational communities, international boundaries, and justice in a land marked by numerous inequalities.

Experiential Learning

The travel seminars, excursions, and community engagements are intended to enhance your understanding of the different issues faced by border communities today. As one aspect of the program’s experiential learning curriculum, you will engage with diverse people and community organizations working along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border by traveling to different locales.

University Sponsor

Roger Adkins

Learn More

Experience Information

Website:earlham-sa.terradotta.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10037

Contact & Location

Phone
(765) 983-1424
Email
epic@earlham.edu
Address

1st Floor Landrum Bolling Center
801 National Rd W
Richmond, IN 47374
Richmond, IN 47374

Office Hours

M 8:30am - 12pm; 1pm-5pm
T 8:30am - 12pm; 1pm-5pm
W 8:30am - 12pm; 1pm-5pm
TH 8:30am - 12pm; 1pm-5pm
F 8:30am - 12pm; 1pm-5pm

CCE & CGE Teams

Candice Quiñones
Director of International Student and Scholar Services
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Corey Kundert
Senior Career Coach
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Diego Bustos, Ph.D.
Director of the Spanish Language Program, Border Studies Program
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Eboni Dixon
Asst. Director of Epic Communications and Career Coach
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Jennifer Lewis
Senior Director of Off-Campus Programs
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Jessie Pilewski
Associate Director of the Center for Global Health
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Julie Whalen
Global Programs Coordinator
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Kari Kinsey
Administrative Assistant
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Kate Morgan
Director of Student Services, Border Studies Program
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Katie Breslin
Senior Career Coach
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Lea Staedtler
Associate Director of Career Education and Student Employment
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Magda Mankel
Academic Director, Border Studies Program
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Melissa Cox
Administrative Assistant
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Mike Deibel
Senior Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs; Professor of Chemistry; Pre-Health Advisor
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Mila P. Cooper
Executive Director of Career Education and Community Engagement
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Nellie Jo David
Director of Academic and Community Engagement, Border Studies Program
Meet Nellie Jo
O'Jeanique Twyman
Interim Director of Community Engagement & Service-Learning
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Roger Adkins
Executive Director, Center for Global Education
Meet Roger
Safia Diarra
ELL Instructor/International Student Adviser
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