International Studies

As an undergraduate, Angela (Panzica) Sasaki Cole ’19 couldn’t decide what to study — or more accurately, she couldn’t decide what not to study. “I went to the Academic Fair and wanted to sign up for everything,” she recalled with a laugh.

Sophomore Adrian Sanchez has been selected as the Albion College student delegate for the upcoming Leaders Across Borders Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland Oct. 10-15.

Raleigh Canady, ’25, and Will Tessin, ’25, make their first trip for the new Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) student group.

“U.S. foreign policy is stronger if it can represent the voices and the interests of all Americans,” says Dr. Carrie Booth Walling, professor of political science and faculty director of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service at Albion College.

Conversation and presentation topics will emphasize that human rights are transnational, extending beyond borders.

The joint tenure-track appointment of Dr. Jeana E. Morrison continues Albion’s focus on innovating the liberal arts college experience of today and tomorrow.

Albion College German professor Perry Myers left investment banking for education and loves his job teaching college students. But he’s giving it up—temporarily—to spend a year in Paris, thanks to a prestigious research fellowship to the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris for the 2020-21 academic year.

For the second time in three years, an Albion College student has won the statewide competition for a study-abroad scholarship from the French-American Chamber of Commerce, Michigan (FACCM). Marceline Redick, ’20, will use the FACC-Michigan French Business Scholarship: Le Détroit Award for study at the Université Stendhal-Grenoble this coming fall.

As six Albion housemates recently prepared to depart campus, they looked back on the memorable experience they created during their senior year within the College’s Spanish Living-Learning Community.

“I screamed my head off for about five minutes and scared my roommates,” says Elaina Braunschweig, ’18, describing her reaction at becoming the latest Albion College student to receive a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. She will spend nine months teaching English in the German state of Brandenburg, which includes Berlin, during the 2018-19 academic year.