December 20, 2022
The Costs of War Project has recently released a new study titled "Uncompensated Allies: How Contracting Companies and U.S. Government Agencies Failed Third-Country Nationals in Afghanistan."
December 19, 2022
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs Andrew Schrank recently released a new book titled, "The Economic Sociology of Development" published by Wiley.
December 6, 2022
Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb recently co-authored a paper titled, "More Than Shortages: The Unequal Distribution of Substitute Teaching" in Education, Finance and Policy published by MIT Press Direct.
December 2, 2022
Associate Professor Ieva Jusionyte discussed the impact of the United States gun industry on violence in Mexico during a lecture titled, "Exit Wounds: American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence" at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
December 1, 2022
Senior fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Rocky Mountain Institute titled, "Next Stop for Climate Action: Making Emissions Visible and Pricing Them."
December 1, 2022
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently published a paper in the journal Asian Security titled, "The Hard School of Amphibious Warfare: Examining the Lessons of the 20th Century’s Major Amphibious Campaigns for Contemporary Chinese Strategy."
November 14, 2022
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Digital Scholarship recently launched a project titled, "In The Wake of George Floyd: Mapping Social Movements Related to Systemic Racism in Rhode Island," that focuses on social movements around systemic racism, particularly efforts to end anti-Black racism, in communities in RI and at Brown.
November 10, 2022
Assistant Professor Jonathan Collins recently published a paper for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University titled, "They Only Hate the Term: Explaining Opposition to History Curriculum Policy and Critical Race Theory."
November 7, 2022
Associate Professor and Faculty Affiliate of the Economics Department, Dany Bahar recently published a paper in The National Bureau of Economic Research titled, "The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezulan Entrepreneurs."
October 18, 2022
Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney recently published a paper in The Journal of Democracy titled, "How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy."
September 30, 2022
The Board of Directors of the US Peace Memorial Foundation unanimously voted to award the 2022 US Peace Prize to Costs of War “For Crucial Research to Shed Light on The Human, Environmental, Economic, Social, and Political Costs of U.S. Wars.”
September 29, 2022
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Science Magazine titled, "Tackling Unlit and Inefficient Gas Flaring," that explains how emissions from flaring threaten the global climate and the health of local communities.
September 20, 2022
Nicolò Fraccaroli co-authored a paper titled, "Does Fake News Affect Voting Behaviour?" that will be published in the January 2023 issue of Research Policy, and is currently available online.
September 15, 2022
Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently authored a paper in collaboration with the Costs of War project titled, "Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending."
September 9, 2022
Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Liana Woskie named a 2022 Guggenheim Emerging Scholar for her dissertation project titled, "Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare."
September 8, 2022
Professor of Economics Mark Blyth recently co-authored a paper titled, "Political Anger: Evidence From Social Media Campaings in the Italian Elections" that measures political anger in social media posts of political parties and candidates during electoral campaigns.
August 24, 2022
Numerous Watson scholars participate in the American Political Science Association annual conference.
August 18, 2022
Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney recently published a 17,000-word paper on "India's Democratic Longevity and its Troubled Trajectory" in Democracy in Hard Places, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud.
August 4, 2022
Eric Patashnik recently authored an essay titled, "Backlash Politics in America's Disunited and Polarized State" for the Studies in American Political Development Journal published by Cambridge University Press.
July 29, 2022
Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb among nine research teams at Brown University to be awarded research support from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund.