April 16, 2019
In a new study, co-author Robert Blair reports findings from a field experiment with the Liberian National Police’s (LNP) “Confidence Patrols” program, following years of civil war in the country.
April 8, 2019
John Friedman, Associate Professor of Economics, has recently been named the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Economics.
March 28, 2019
Watson Institute Senior Fellow Alex Nading published a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on the topic of “Human Animal Health," co-editing the issue with Hannah Brown (Durham University).
March 18, 2019
In a new article published in International Studies Quarterly, co-author Jeffrey Colgan delves into the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union in the 1950s and sharing nuclear technology internationally.
March 13, 2019
In her book, Indian activist Aruna Roy tells the story of how a people’s movement brought about the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India in 2005.
March 11, 2019
Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to conduct outreach on the OCI’s decision-making potential.
March 5, 2019
Provost Richard M. Locke was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to support his project, The Future of Work and its Implications for Higher Education.
February 26, 2019
Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg’s recent book, Congressional Procedure: A Practical Guide to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress: The House of Representatives and Senate Explained, has won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Award and the bronze 2019 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in the Mid-Atlantic region.
February 11, 2019
While at The American Academy in Berlin, Associate Professor Prerna Singh is working on a project that seeks to explore why polities with similar conditions have been characterized by different levels of containment.
January 14, 2019
In December, Professor Margaret Weir convened "The Political Geography and Inequality in America" workshop to discuss how spatial arrangements influence inequality in the country.
December 19, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow Dario Valles was recently awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the APLA for his article, Chill Pills, Play and Panic in a California Administrative Court.
December 14, 2018
In November, Professors Eric Patashnik and Wendy Schiller convened a conference on "The Dynamics of American Democracy: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance," to explore the current state of democracy in the United States.
December 4, 2018
Timothy Edgar was recently awarded the 2018 Roy C. Palmer Prize by Chicago-Kent College of Law for his book, Beyond Snowden.
November 29, 2018
In a new working paper, Professor Emily Oster questions if individual choices influence scientific results.
November 16, 2018
A new report by the Costs of War Project estimates that the United States has spent and obligated more than $5.9 trillion on the war on terror, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
November 8, 2018
In a recent article, Nina Tannenwald explores the threat that the Trump administration poses to the seven decade tradition of not using nuclear weapons.
November 1, 2018
HI² received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a predictive tool to guide the treatment of pediatric diarrhea.