Beth Holmes is studying for her MBA at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge after six years working as a microfinance consultant focused on Africa. As an undergraduate student at Colby College, Beth participated in two SIT Study Abroad programs: in Bolivia and Morocco. She recently teamed up with four classmates at [...]
SIT Switzerland Academic Director Presents Paper at United Nations on Theory and Practice of Autonomies in Europe
On March 21, 2013, Dr. Gyula Csurgai, academic director of the Switzerland: International Studies and Multilateral Diplomacy program, presented a paper at the United Nations in Geneva. The paper discussed different approaches to local and territorial autonomies and protecting minority rights as a means of preventing ethnic conflicts. In addition, Dr. Csurgai contributed to a [...]
SIT Jordan Students Meet with His Royal Highness Al Hassan Bin Talal
By Dr. Raed Al-Tabini, SIT Academic Director in Jordan On Thursday April 18, 2013, SIT students on the Jordan: Modernization and Social Change program had the opportunity to meet with His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal, brother of the late King Hussein, and uncle to Jordan’s King Abdullah. The Prince gave a talk, answered [...]
Studying Food Culture and Changing Global Diets in Samoa and Beyond
By Hadas Yanay, alumna of the SIT Study Abroad Samoa program My interest in food culture, nutrition, and public health merged during my undergraduate semester abroad in Samoa, through SIT Study Abroad. In Samoa, I observed the country’s sudden and rapid shift from a traditional, subsistence-based economy into a developing, market economy. Through homestays, program [...]
SIT Alumna Explores Alternative Education around the World through Watson Fellowship
Last year, Cara Tratner (Wesleyan University), alumna of SIT’s Comparative Education and Social Change program in Chile and Argentina, was awarded a 2012–2013 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The Watson is a one-year, $25,000 grant that gives recently graduated students the chance to travel abroad to complete a self-designed project. Cara’s project, entitled “Overcoming Exclusion: Community-Based [...]
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