Meet the developer behind Houston's ubiquitous 3-story urban townhomes (commentary by Angela Blanchard)
February 14, 2020 Houston Chronicle
Faculty Q&A
Interdisciplinary Focus
New Documentary Film Initiative Named in Memory of John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83
Strong Leaders
Watson Announces New Senior Fellows
Master of Public Affairs
Application deadline: February 21, 2020
In The News
Students from middle-class families underrepresented at selective colleges, study finds (John Friedman cited)
February 14, 2020 News from Brown
A simple way to equalize the Ivies? Give others the legacy SAT bonus (comments by John Friedman)
February 13, 2020 The New York Times
News from Watson
New Faculty Leadership Roles
September 10, 2019
Introducing the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
September 3, 2019
Fall 2019 Study Groups
August 8, 2019
Research Briefs
Governing the New Geography of Poverty in Metropolitan America
January 29, 2020
Opportunities
The Watson Institute offers a variety of research and funding opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students.
Events
February 19
Guy Ben-Porat ─ Policing Citizens: Minority Policy in Israel
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
February 20
Chas Freeman ─ America in Distress: The Challenges of Disadvantageous Change
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
February 21
Book presentation: The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century (2019)
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Student Experience
Introducing the Seventh Brown in Washington Cohort
February 11, 2020
Webcasts
Rumela Sen — Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence From India
February 7, 2020
Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
February 7, 2020
Tony Stewart – Parody and Persuasion: Narrative Strategies of Bengali Sufi Fictions
February 6, 2020
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