News & Research
February 13, 2019 City Journal
In an event titled, "Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, or Both?" Professor Glenn Loury discussed the persistence of racial inequality with Jason Riley.
January 30, 2019 The Providence Journal
Tuesday, January 29th's event, Critical Conversations: Experiences of Incarceration in the United States & Syria, hosted by Middle East Studies, was featured in The Providence Journal. "We also wanted to bring into the academic environment the perspective of people who have been imprisoned."
January 22, 2019 Quillette
"But another reason why Loury extols the virtue of a benign kind of nationalism can be discerned in a question he frequently asks himself: What are his duties as an African American intellectual?"
January 22, 2019 Politico
Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in Politico, "Now a group of exiled Turkish writers, journalists and political reformers has launched a campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize for their country’s most prominent cultural activist."
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 5, 2018 Inside Higher Ed
James N. Green, Director of the Brazil Initiative, comments on a bill pending in Brazil's National Congress that would go as far as to bar the use of "gender" in teaching, saying "with the election of Bolsonaro and a more conservative Congress, there is a possibility the bill might get traction."
October 15, 2018 Los Angeles Times
Professor Rose McDermott says younger women are more sensitive to perceived harassment than older ones. “How we draw the line between inappropriate or patronizing behavior and genuine harassment is really challenging because women themselves don’t agree...Those in-between spaces are getting harder to negotiate.”
August 16, 2018 Common Dreams
Research by the Costs of War Project is cited in an article about the lack of anti-war messaging.
August 2, 2018 College Fix
A team of university economists, among them Professor Glenn Loury, said Asian-American applicants to Harvard whose grades and test scores were in the top one percent fared worse in "personal" ratings from the school than white applicants in the top 50 percent.
July 17, 2018 Pass Blue
The WomenStats Project links the status of women to the security and behavior of countries, offering insights into women's lives all over the world. The database helped uphold a ban on polygyny in Canada when Professor Rose McDermott submitted empirical research that used WomenStats numbers to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
July 9, 2018 The Providence Journal
More female candidates than ever are running for political office in Rhode Island this year. Political scientist Wendy Schiller said the establishment party's endorsement controversy and recent pushback against pay equity, abortion rights and new sexual harassment laws has received stinging national media attention, and outrage among far-left-leaning voters could spur big wins for progressive candidates.
June 13, 2018
In her new book, Professor Rose McDermott examines one structural factor that instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance: the practice of polygyny.
June 4, 2018 972 Magazine
Professor Ashutosh Varshney compares his studies of villages in the Gujarat state of India, where Muslims and Hindus coexist more harmoniously than in other parts of the country, to that of Galilee, where Jews and Arabs interact daily, primarly economically.
April 24, 2018 Foward
Natalie Portman's decision not to attend an awards ceremony in Israel to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies signals a potential turning point in discourse on the country for young American Jews.
April 23, 2018 CNN
Comments by Professor Ashutosh Varshney were mentioned in a segment on the growing religious divide in India, on CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria.
March 21, 2018 NPR
Catherine Lutz, a professor of anthropology, called National Geographic's past coverage "a kind of white view of the world ... it's safe, and it's basically free of problems." The magazine's forthcoming issue will confront its own racist past.
March 19, 2018 Chicago Tribune
Professor Catherine Lutz comments on National Geographic's recent admission of its racist past. “There was a lot of ways that the racism was complex more than just captions saying, ‘These are savages.’”
March 9, 2018 DU Center for Middle East Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar discussed the aftermath of the Iranian Protests at the University of Denver's Center for Middle East Studies.
February 16, 2018 The Providence Journal
"To the list of landmark genocide studies must now be added Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, Brown University Prof. Omer Bartov’s masterfully researched and hauntingly rendered history of atrocities committed against — and by — the religiously and ethnically mixed former residents of a place that today is part of Ukraine."
February 14, 2018 The Japan Times
In response to a Brazilian samba school’s use of blackface in a Carnival parade, James N. Green, director of the Brazil Initiative, said it made sense that there would be confusion over how to interpret blackface in Brazil, since it originated outside the country.