Book by Prof. Shadrack Nasong'o Receives 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

A book by Rhodes College international studies professor Dr. Shadrack Nasong'o has received the 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. The prestigious honor reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed during the previous calendar year and chosen by editors of Choice, which is a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Rhodes Captures Spot on “Most Beautiful Colleges” List

The Most Beautiful Colleges list, which features the work of top architects and designers, notes the college’s “beautiful wooded campus with uniformly Collegiate Gothic buildings made of Arkansas sandstone, Vermont slate, and Indiana limestone.”

Trip to Mississippi Delta Brings Classroom Studies to Life

Students in the English course Voices of the Delta had the unusual opportunity of traveling during a regular campus course, along with faculty members, to engage with the history, culture, and landscape they’re currently studying in class. 

Rhodes to Honor Alumnus and WWII Veteran Declared Missing in Action for Decades

U.S.Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Martin F. O’Callaghan, Jr., a member of the Class of 1944, was killed during World War II. Listed as missing in action for more than seven decades, his remains were finally identified this year and are being returned to his family for a service and burial with full military honors on Nov. 5.