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Deborah Yashar, editor of "World Politics" and professor of politics and international affairs and co-director of the Democracy and Development Project at Princeton University, and Carissa Tudor-Block, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics, reflect on gender and the editorial process at the journal in the May issue of "Political Science & Politics."

Princeton students Kyle Chan and Kaichen Gu have been named Mr. and Mrs. Yan Huo *94*95 Graduate Fellows.

"Landowners and Democracy: The Social Origins of Democracy Reconsidered," by Michael Albertus, first published in the April 2017 issue of World Politics, has won the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2018 Comparative Democratization section’s prize for best article.

Six exceptional scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the sixth cohort of Fung Global Fellows.

Sir Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus, delivered a public lecture to an audience of nearly 200 at the University’s Sir Arthur Lewis Auditorium in advance of the dedication of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University on April 27.

​The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, made possible by a gift from Sumir Chadha of Princeton’s Class of 1993, was dedicated at Princeton University on April 27.

Princeton University seniors Lavinia Liang, Katie Tyler and Erika Ward have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.

As a capstone to the fall course “The Ethics of Borders and Migration,” 11 Princeton undergraduates and one graduate student traveled north to Buffalo, New York, to learn about the city’s refugee resettlement efforts.

History can tell us a lot about environmental upheaval, say Princeton historians John Haldon and Lee Mordechai. What is missing in today’s debate about climate change is using what we know about how past societies handled environmental stresses to help inform our own situation.  

A gift from Sumir Chadha of Princeton’s Class of 1993 has established the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University, which will bring together scholars and students from all disciplines to broadly explore contemporary India, including its economy, politics and culture. The center is named in honor of Chadha’s grandfather, a distinguished physician who served as the director general of Health Services for India.

Princeton senior Ugonna Nwabueze’s development of the production of “Eclipsed”— which included an unforgettable trip to West Africa to conduct interviews of her own — is for her certificates in theater and African studies.

Several Princeton University departments and programs and over 30 Princeton-area nonprofit organizations will investigate the theme of “Migrations” from February through May.

This year, PIIRS will launch four new Global Seminars, including “Athens Now: Culture and Politics in the Urban Space” with Effie Rentzou, an associate professor of French.

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), in conjunction with the Office of International Programs, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Operations and the Council for International Teaching and Research, launched the 2017 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, “Princeton International.”

Princeton senior Shruthi Rajasekar has been named a 2018 Marshall Scholar.

David Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, a professor of French and comparative literature, and director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, has won the American Library in Paris Book award for “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventures of Les Misérables.”

Wendy Laura Belcher, an associate professor of African literature at Princeton University, has won the Association for the Preservation and Publication of African Historical Sources’ Paul Hair Prize for “The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman.” The book, by Galawdewos, is co-translated by Belcher and Michael Kleiner, a historian of Ethiopia and a translator of the ancient Ethiopian language Gəˁəz.

Led by Sandra Bermann, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature, and by a faculty steering committee spanning multiple disciplines, including history, sociology, comparative literature, English, politics and journalism, the seminar will take place in the 2018-19 academic year.

PIIRS Graduate Fellow Joan Ricart-Huguet recently penned an article in the Daily Princetonian entitled, "Why Can't Spain and Catalonia just get along?"

Several articles that were published in World Politics, the internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science, have won distinguished awards, which will be announced at the upcoming American Political Science Association (APSA) conference.

The most cited articles from volume 69 (2016) of World Politics are available for free download for a limited time.

Isabelle Clark-Decès, the director of the Program in South Asian Studies and a professor of anthropology died Thursday, June 29, in the village of Mussoorie, India.

PIIRS Director Stephen Kotkin penned an opinion piece on Russian President Vladimir Putin's relationship and influence on America, its politics and President Trump.

Sunny skies, good friends and the sounds of cool, gypsy jazz were the perfect start to the Beers with PIIRS Reunions event which invited all alumni to sample unique beers and complementary gourmet fare courtesy of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Achille Tenkiang '18, an African Studies concentrator, and Jeffrey Williamson '18, a history major, have been awarded the first Senior Thesis Prize by the Program in African Studies.

A photo of a lone white rhinoceros is projected onto a screen behind Jacob Dlamini, a Princeton University assistant professor of history, as his students argue the justification of using violence against the poachers and criminal syndicates who illegally hunt the animal for its iconic horn — and the moral authority non-Africans have to push for those measures.

Six exceptional early career scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the fifth cohort of Fung Global Fellows.

Mark Beissinger, current acting director of PIIRS and the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, is the recipient of a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work in political science on social movements and imperialism in Russia and the post-Soviet states.

Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff will present "The Challenges of Democracy in Brazil" on Thursday, April 13 at noon in McCormick 101.

Princeton University seniors Ava Hoffman, Lara Norgaard, Vidushi Sharma and Achille Tenkiang have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.

Sponsored by the Davis International Center, an open information session for Princeton students and scholars will be held February 23 to gain information, updates and ask questions about President's Trump Executive Order.

PIIRS has recently launched a new Research Community on “Migration: People and Cultures Across Borders” led by Sandra Bermann, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of comparative literature.

Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are invited to apply to PIIRS Global Seminars held in seven exciting locations next summer. The deadline application is February 13. 

Grants Available for NEH Summer Institute on Translation

Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the Program in Judaic Studies. This academic year, she is team-teaching the yearlong course "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture," also known as the Humanities Sequence

The new PIIRS European Crises Working Group had its first public talk on “Brexit: Why and How the United Kingdom Leaves the European Union.” Leading the panel discussion was the group’s coordinator Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values. Other panelists included Harold James, director of the program in contemporary European Politics and Society; Andrew Moravcsik, professor of politics and director of the European Union program; and R. Daniel Keleman, professor of political science and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Rutgers University.

Soros Lectures in New York City will highlight translation experts, including Princeton's Esther Schor.

Harold James, director of the Program in Contemporary Politics, shares his opinion on Brexit in "Project Syndicate.

Close to 100 students and faculty gathered in a festive Aaron Burr Hall on May 4 to receive their final instructions and to meet their fellow "seminar-mates" before traveling to their Global Seminars in the coming weeks.