Dr. Scott Newstok, professor of English and executive director of the Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College, has been awarded a four-year grant from the State Research Agency of Spain. This award will support his scholarship on the multilingual heritage of early modern English across legal, religious, political, and literary discourses. Newstok’s project was one of 37 funded among 254 applications; in the three-year history of Spain’s research program, he is the second recipient who works in the humanities, and the only recipient from a liberal arts college.
Reading the City’s Streets: Exploring New York City Through a Literary Lens
Rhodes College’s New York City Internship program has provided students the opportunity to spend a semester studying theater and history in the Big Apple since 2019. This past summer, a new program., Literary NYC: Reading the City, shifted the focus to the written word to immerse students in the rhythm of one of America’s oldest and greatest cities.
December 08, 2025
Rhodes Historical Review Awarded Prize from Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
Rhodes Historical Review, a student-edited journal published by the Rhodes chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society, has secured second prize in the honor society’s undergraduate print category of the 2025 Nash History Journal competition. Sarah Dassinger and Muhammad Waraich of the Rhodes Class of 2025 served as co-editors of the award-winning edition. Dr. Sarah Ifft Decker, associate professor of history, serves as faculty advisor.
December 02, 2025
Rhodes Students Awarded Honors for Presentations at Biomedical Research Conference
Rhodes students Christopher Karohl ’27and Jennifer Bui ’26 received honors at the Arkansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence conference held Nov. 7-8, in Fayetteville, AR. The conference included participants from colleges and universities in Arkansas and surrounding states who presented research in the biological sciences, physics, and chemistry and biochemistry.
November 21, 2025
Rhodes College’s Liberal Arts in Prison Program Receives $500K Grant from Mellon Foundation
Rhodes College has been awarded a $500,000, three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand and enrich its innovative Liberal Arts in Prison Program. The Rhodes program began in 2016 with a weekly Great Books Reading Group at the Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center, a state prison in Henning, TN.
November 19, 2025
Jasmine Jeffries ’26 Among Changemakers at Allstate Foundation National Youth Service Summit
Rhodes College senior Jasmine Jeffries was among 65 of the country’s youth leaders participating in the Allstate Foundation National Youth Service Summit recently held in Chicago. She was chosen from a highly competitive pool of more than 500 applicants who are already leading groundbreaking community impact initiatives.
November 14, 2025
Olivia Cass and Anna Everly: RISEing to Opportunity
When Anna Everly ’27 and Olivia Cass ’27 joined the Rhodes Impact Summer Experience (RISE) fellowship, they knew they’d spend the summer serving Memphis in meaningful ways. What they didn’t expect was how deeply their work with the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) would shape their understanding of community, leadership, and purpose.
November 11, 2025
Artwork by Charley Robinson ’26 Selected for Bellwethers Annual Juried Exhibition
Artwork by Charley Robinson, an art major from Cordova, TN, is prominently featured in the distinguished Bellwethers Annual Juried Exhibition of Collegiate Student Art. The title of her work is Me, Myself, and My Ancestors.
The show runs now through Nov. 14 at the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, TN.
November 06, 2025
100 Years in Memphis: A Long History Makes for Meaningful—and Fun—Traditions
As a college with a long and storied history, Rhodes is home to a wide range of traditions. Some date back for a century; other traditions, however, are of a more recent, and definitely less serious, origin.
November 04, 2025
From Memphis to the World: Eckels Art Scholars Reflect on International Experience
Erin Moore '26 and Mika Colina '26 are two of the first recipients of the Theodore William Eckels International Practicum for Art and Art History, a newly established internship that fully funds students to work abroad for eight weeks.
October 29, 2025
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN: Lynx Pantry Provides Food and Other Essentials to Students Needing a Little Extra Help
Rhodes Colleges student volunteers have led the Tuesday soup kitchen at St. John’s United Methodist Church since 1988, but in recent years students have seen some of their own peers experiencing food insecurity. With that, the idea for an on-campus food pantry was born. Established in the spring of 2024 and open year-round, the Lynx Pantry makes available to Rhodes students free foods and toiletries that can make a difference to a student living on a shoestring budget.
October 28, 2025