Our Amazing International Colleagues
Rhodes College has a long tradition of fostering international education and welcoming international faculty, students, and staff as essential members of the Rhodes community. An important component of Rhodes’s commitment to diversity and equity is our shared work of recruiting, welcoming, supporting, and retaining international faculty and staff. While federal immigration law and the employee’s country of origin sometimes affect timetables and eligibility, tenure-stream faculty and some renewable term-appointed faculty who wish to seek Permanent Residence status are eligible for institutional support in the PERM process.
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International Faculty & Staff News
Rhodes College students Cole McNair ’26, John Mori ’26, Jason Rubinstein ’27, Graham Allen ’26, and Ismail Malik ’26 secured first place at the Mid-South competition of the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Research Challenge.
A book by international studies professor Dr. Shadrack Nasong'o has received the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The book is titled Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony.
Rhodes College is being awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in the amount of $502,946 for research conducted by Dr. Qian Shen, assistant professor of biology.