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Oberlin’s Grammy Award-winning professor of jazz saxophone has been named a 2024 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s highest honor conferred to jazz musicians.

Kenji Anderson came to Oberlin to study English and piano—and left with a deepened love of Japan.

Sheera Talpaz, an assistant professor of comparative literature and Jewish studies at Oberlin, will spend the 2023-24 academic year in Israel and Palestine as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Her research

Véronique Harris grew up a witness to inequality. Now she’s dedicating her life to eradicating it through a career in public-service law.

Anna Sheik returns to Mexico to follow her love of language, history, and teaching.

Dewi Beer’s love of teaching and language converge in a Taiwanese fellowship.

Curiosity led Emma Kim to study Eastern Europe at Oberlin. Now a state department scholarship has her curious about living and studying there.

Darius Butler explores human rights across three continents through a Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship.

Biology major Jules Lieberman to study shark and ray migratory patterns through NOAA Hollings Scholarship.

Theo Canter’s deep ties to Greece get a boost through a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Athens.