2021 Dickey Center Annual Report

The Dickey Center's 2021 Annual Report is now available online. The report covers the timeframe from July 2020-June 2021. Despite the challenges imposed by the pandemic, the Center, and the students, faculty, and staff who participate in its programs, were busy. Please take a moment to read what we've been up to and reach out with any questions.

Wishing you all the best in the New Year!

Burkins Joins Urgent Call for Science Funding to Address Global Climate Emergency & Sustainable Development Goals

A new International Science Council (ISC) report, developed at the request of the Global Forum of Funders (GFF), was advised by Dartmouth's Melody Brown Burkins, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies. 

9/11: 20 Years Later

Whether they were working, in school, or not yet born, students and faculty say the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, continue to shape the world today.

Members of the War and Peace Fellows, a program run by the Dickey Center, speak about the horrific loss of more than 3,000 lives, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tension between liberty and security, the rise of Islamophobia, and the personal impact of 9/11 and its aftermath.

Burkins Named Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies

Melody Brown Burkins, Guarini '95, '98, the associate director for programs and research at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, has been named director of the Institute of Arctic Studies.

Burkins begins her new role on July 1, as Ross Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Studies, passes the helm of the internationally renowned program to his longtime student, colleague, and friend.

Victoria Holt Named Dickey Center Director

Victoria K. Holt, vice president of the Stimson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute focused on international affairs, has been named the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. (Photo courtesy of the Stimson Center)