Resources

OSU Resources: 

 

International Offices

Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies fosters interdisciplinary faculty and student research on national security in a global context.

Office of International Affairs
The Office of International Affairs coordinates, enhances, and develops The Ohio State University's (OSU) international activities, signs international agreements with foreign institutions, administers grant programs for graduate students and faculty, and coordinates international outreach, study abroad opportunities, international students, international scholars, the area studies centers, and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Libraries

University Libraries, International and Area Studies 
The Ohio State University’s University Libraries contain a wealth of resources and subject specialists in international and area studies. The East European and Slavic Studies collection contains over one million items, including books and journals of which the great majority are in the languages of the region. The majority of these cover the broad area of the humanities and social sciences, reflecting the diverse interests of OSU's scholars and students. Subject experts have also curated resource guides based on regions or topics.

Hilandar Research Library
The Hilandar Research Library has the largest collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts on microform in the world. The collection includes more than 5,000 Cyrillic manuscripts on microform, with over 1,200 from different monasteries on Mount Athos, Greece, including the entire Slavic collection of Hilandar Monastery.

Other Units on Campus

Center for International Business Education and Research
Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) are supported and funded through the U.S. Department of Education. Each CIBER provides programming to link the manpower and technological needs of the U.S. business community with the international education, language training, and research capacities of universities across the country.

Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
The Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (CLLC) seeks to increase the understanding of diverse cultures, expand competence in foreign languages, and investigate the impact and creative potential contained in established and emerging media technologies.

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary unit in the College of Arts and Sciences dedicated to the study of Europe and its neighbors from the end of the Roman Empire through the 17th century.

Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program
The main objective of the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT) is to stimulate and facilitate research, graduate training, and undergraduate education.  Within its international network of institutions and scholars, CONSIRT provides the opportunity for preparing and administering complex research projects with a cross-national perspective.

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Founded in 1979, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) offers instruction in a number of Near Eastern languages, literatures, and cultures, including the Turkish and Uzbek languages and Central Asian cultures.

Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (DSEELC) houses one of the largest programs of its kind in the country, with a full range of courses and programs focusing on the languages, literatures, and cultures of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Office of Research
The Office of Research has created a saved search for funding opportunities related to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. This is accessible to current Ohio State faculty and students (requires log-on).

Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
The Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies was founded in 1984 and is part of the College of Arts and Sciences.  It promotes medieval Slavic studies and has close ties with the Hilandar Research Library.

Undergraduate International Studies Program
An academic unit of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, the Undergraduate International Studies Program specializes in providing international and cross-cultural coursework at OSU.

Non-OSU Resources:

 

Associations

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
A nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society that is the leading private organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe.

Midwest Slavic Association
Each year the Midwest Slavic Association and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies (CSEES) partner together to host the Midwest Slavic Conference.

Curriculum Resources

Curriculum Internationalization Resources for Community College Educators by the University of Arizona provides a way for U.S. Department of Education-designated Title VI National Resource Centers (NRCs) to share information, curricular materials, and suggestions - many of which were created by community college faculty. 

EDSITEment! is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities. The website is a great resource for educators and students, hosting lesson plans, resource collections, articles, and much more.

International Education Centers

Center for International Education, Lakeland Community College

Council for European Studies, Columbia University

Libraries

The Voinovich Collections at Ohio University Libraries is a digital and archival resource containing documents from the career of George V. Voinovich.  In particular, materials are available to educators and archive staff can work to develop and digitise materials for specific courses.  Documents show the inside workings of a campaign, the policy making process, and Voinovich's work in the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. 

Museums

Hungarian Heritage Museum in Cleveland, Ohio

Ukrainian Museum-Archives in Cleveland, Ohio