About Us

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies fosters interdisciplinary faculty and student research on national security in a global context. To find out more, please read our Mission and History.

The director of the Mershon Center reports to the associate provost for international affairs and a provost-appointed Oversight Committee.

The Mershon Center is proud to support three endowed chairs in national security, military history, and peace studies.

Each year, the Mershon Center gives the Furniss Book Award to an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security.

Each year the Mershon Center selects one lecture in honor of Joseph J. Kruzel, an Ohio State faculty member in Political Science who was killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia, while serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs.

The Mershon Center is a unit of the Office of International Affairs at The Ohio State University.