About ICGC
In these pages you can find information on our program, our students, faculty, and staff and their interests, fellowships that the program offers and much more.
The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) comprises the following programs:
The MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice
The MacArthur Program, seeks to foster an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural community of faculty and graduate students committed to studying global change, especially as seen in the developing world; addressing issues of peace, conflict, security, social and environmental change, justice, human rights, development and international cooperation. The study of these issues is also extended to the United States and other developed countries. Research and training focus on four major themes:
- War and peace in historical context, represented by national and global security issues
- Global governance and transnational norms
- Environmental sustainability and social justice
- Production, performance and representation of identities
The MacArthur Program provides intellectual and financial support for over one hundred graduate students in several colleges of the University of Minnesota. The Program also provides enabling grants to graduate and professional students for international internships and predissertation fieldwork in the developing world as part of their training programs. Interdisciplinary faculty-student seminars and workshop series are organized around major theoretical, comparative and methodological issues related to the developing world; and formal public lecturesa and informal discussion series are presented by scholars, policy makers and activists addressing issues related to themes of the Program. In addition, the Program offers a graduate minor for ICGC Scholars in Development Studies and Social Change.
Global Issues Honors Consortium (GIHC)
The Global Issues Honors Consortium is a collaborative effort that offers a multi-year academic program for American minority undergraduates headed for graduate school. Through this program, exceptional American minority students from four universities receive intensive preparation for graduate studies with an international orientation through both academic year honors coursework, an intensive summer program held at the University of Minnesota, and a summer study abroad program.
Fellowships
ICGC administers three fellowships for graduate students pursuing careers involving the study of global change. Please click on the Fellowships link to the left for details on these fellowships.
ICGC/MacArthur Scholars Fellowship: For students interested in the developing world and in North American minority communities.
ICGC/Mellon Scholars Fellowship: For students who are clearly committed to the interdisciplinary study of the global south in the context of global change.
ICGC/Compton Peace Fellowship: For students from Sub-Sahara Africa interested in issues of peace and conflict resolution in that geographical area.