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Colby students at Capetown, South AfricaThe Office of Off-Campus Study helps students make plans to study abroad. Options include participating in Colby-sponsored programs in Spain, France, Ireland, or Russia or in other approved programs around the world. In Salamanca, Spain, and Dijon, France, there are Colby-run programs designed specifically for entering first-year students, who learn the language and culture of the host country, live with local families, and take part in excursions, all under the direction of a member of the Colby faculty.  There also are Colby programs open to sophomores and juniors in both cities. Colby in St. Petersburg (Russia) is open to students who have had at least two years of college Russian. As part of that program, Colby students teach two classes in English to Russian high school students. In addition to its own programs, the College approves study at a number of programs throughout the world, as long as they meet Colby’s standards for academic rigor.
 
A Selection of Faculty Research Involving Travel Abroad
Robert Gastaldo (geology)
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction in South Africa.

Suellen Diaconoff (French and Italian)
Francophone women writers in Morocco.

Catherine Besteman (anthropology)
The roots of violent conflict and how a society emerges from this conflict. Research in Africa.

Howard Lupovitch  (history)
Beyond ideology—the religious outlook of rabbis who don't fit a conventional Jewish denomination. Research conducted in Budapest, Hungary.

Steven Nuss (music)
Developing an approach to music analysis and expanded listening based on points of contact between various world belief systems and recent research in quantum physics and mathematics. Research in Bali, Japan, and India.

Mary Beth Mills (anthropology)
Anthropological research in Thailand on rural-urban labor migration and women’s urban industrial labor activism.

Ariel Armony (government)
The making of citizenship rights in Latin America. Research in Argentina, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Philip Brown (economics)
Poverty and inequality in China. The economic impact of health care reforms in rural China.

Tamae Prindle (East Asian Studies)
Women in Japanese Cinema.

Jennifer Yoder (government)
Territorial and administrative reform in Central and East Europe. Research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.