Modern Languages and Cultures

A recent trip to Ecuador by an Albion College delegation of faculty and staff will help broaden the international experience of students by establishing a new partner institution.

From eating out to looking at political art (and of course, learning to tango), her time in Argentina’s capital provided new world perspectives.

Nick Diamond, ’15, was a double major in French and Cell and Molecular Biology at Albion less than a decade ago. Now he’s a leading voice in the fight against Monkeypox.

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

The Albion German professor explores Spiritual Empires in Europe and India.

Spanish

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.