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Fostering Global Insight, Building Shared Futures

The Global Studies Center promotes critical thinking and practical engagement with the world through the interdisciplinary study of globalization. About us »

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For Students

The Center offers academic credentials to students who desire a deeper understanding of social and economic inequality in transnational context.

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For Faculty

Over 230 University of Pittsburgh faculty members are affiliated with the Global Studies Center.

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PITTWIRE: Mohammed Bamyeh earned the Kuwait Prize in sociology

Mohammed Bamyeh, professor in Sociology and a European Studies Center and Global Studies Center faculty affiliate, was awarded the 2025 Kuwait Prize…

U TIMES: Slavic languages professor and nursing alum honored with Sheth awards

Nancy Condee, director of Pitt’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (as well as the inaugural director of the Global Studies…

PITTWIRE: llknur Lider was named president of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages

Ilknur Lider, a faculty affiliate of ASC, REEES, ESC, and GSC, has been named president of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (…

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