Angrynomics and the plan to save the world (interview with Mark Blyth)
April 12, 2021 BFM (The Business Station)
MPA Program
Awards & Honors
Congratulations to the 2020-21 Fulbright Scholarship Winners
Interdisciplinary Focus
How to Teach Climate Change: Sourcing and Sharing Syllabi
In The News
Vaccine-hunting volunteers help Americans score COVID jabs (commentary by Emily Oster)
April 11, 2021 Al Jazeera
Biden’s infrastructure sales force knows its potholes and bridges (commentary by Marc Dunkelman)
April 9, 2021 New York Times
News from Watson
Supporting New Scholarship on Questions of Injustice, Human Rights, and Democracy
February 11, 2021
Spring Semester Practitioner-Led Student Study Groups
January 26, 2021
Policy, Economic Experts Weigh in on U.S. Capitol Attack
January 7, 2021
Research Briefs
Foreign Aid and State Legitimacy
March 31, 2021
Opportunities
The Watson Institute offers a variety of research and funding opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students.
Events
April 12
Employing the Body in Resistance: Hunger Strikes by Palestinian Political Prisoners
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
April 14
Uday Mehta — Critiquing Empire and the Challenge of Representation: Gandhi and the Nationalists
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
April 15
Margaret Roberts — Censorship's Effect on Incidental Exposure to Information: Evidence from Wikipedia
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Student Experience
Student Spotlight: Jamila Beesley ’22
April 1, 2021
Webcasts
Wael Al-Delaimy ─ Climate Change and Global Warming Related to the Middle East
April 9, 2021
Congressional Forum Event: Toward Restoring the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body
April 7, 2021
Feminist Anti-Racist Activisms: Intersections of Feminist and Anti-Racist Activisms in the Middle East and North Africa
April 7, 2021
Kiss the Ground Screening and Panel Discussion
April 5, 2021
Josh Shapiro: The Will of the People and Our Electoral System
March 31, 2021
Current Research
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