March 15, 2023
Wendy Schiller recently co-authored a new book published by Cambridge University Press titled, "Inequality Across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States."
March 12, 2023
Lyle Goldstein recently authored an essay published in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists titled, "The trouble with Taiwan."
March 10, 2023
Saxena Center Director Ashutosh Varshey and Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian were panelists during the annual Hauser Symposium on "The Future of India".
March 9, 2023
The Global Liberty Institute presented its 2023 Liberty Award to Glenn C. Loury during a ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida on February 17, 2023.
March 2, 2023
Professor Robert Blair has been granted a 2023 Seed Award for his social sciences proposal titled, “Understanding and preventing violence against environmental activists in the Amazon.”
February 28, 2023
Prerna Singh authored an essay published in the latest issue of Dædalus Journal titled, "All (Cautiously) Hail—and Scale—Community!"
February 10, 2023
Associate Professor John Eason recently co-authored an article published in the latest issue of SSM - Population Health titled, "The impact of carceral churn and healthcare organizations on HIV/AIDS incidence in Arkansas"
February 6, 2023
Professor Michael Kennedy recently authored an article titled, "Globalizing Knowledge and Nationalisms’ Reactions in the Articulation of Universities" for Global Perspectives published by University of California Press.
February 2, 2023
Reid Pauly and Rose McDermott recently co-authored a paper published in the January issue of International Security titled, "The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship."
January 24, 2023
Professor Michael Kennedy recently published a paper in the American Sociological Association's Footnotes Magazine titled, "How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Matters: A Knowledge Cultural Sociology."
January 20, 2023
David Kertzer's book The Pope at War has been longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography.
January 13, 2023
Watson postdoctoral fellow Don Casler was named a finalist in the 2022 Andrew W. Marshall Paper Prize for his paper titled, "Credible to Whom? Credibility, Organizational Politics, and Crisis Decision Making," which builds on his ongoing book project.
January 5, 2023
Watson Faculty Emily Oster and Jonathan Collins among those recognized in the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.
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.