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Molecular biology major Ethan Ricardo Mandojana ’27 was awarded the Princeton Research Day Undergraduate International Research Award. The prize is sponsored by the Office of International Programs and recognizes the researcher whose project best...
Princeton University senior Brian Mhando has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize students for “outstanding intellectual ability,” “leadership potential” and “a commitment to improving the lives of others,” among other...
Anne McClintock, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, recently participated in the Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale, “How Heavy Is a City?”, for which she is...
Paridhi Rustogi was delighted when she learned she’d been accepted to the 2025 GOOD-OARS International Summer School. A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geosciences and a fellow in the HMEI Climate and Environmental Sciences and...
Princeton University is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2020-2021 Fulbright U.S. Students. Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces...
Princeton seniors Alice McGuinness and Nathalie Verlinde and University of Oxford student Jack Nunn have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.
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New research: 'Normal Politics Under Stress: The 2026 Midterm Elections and Constraints on Presidential Power' by Frances Lee
Normal Politics Under Stress: The 2026 Midterm Elections and Constraints on Presidential Power
New study examines how courts survive democratic backsliding
A new study published in the Journal of Democracy by PIIRS 2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellow Andrew O’Donohue examines why judicial independence sometimes survives even when political leaders attempt to weaken or control the courts.
New research examines how ‘calibrated neglect’ shapes political life in Zimbabwe’s gold-mining regions
In a new article in American Anthropologist, former associate research scholar and lecturer in the Program in African Studies Melusi Nkomo describes a form of governance in which dangers go unaddressed, while the state selectively reappears after injury, death or public outrage.
Explainer: Democratic Backsliding | Rory Truex, Princeton University
In this session of The Civic Forum, Rory Truex provides a short lecture on how democracies erode, a process political scientists call "democratic backsliding." The session includes a discussion of the global state of democracy and the conditions that lead democracy to die. He provides...
Podcast | An optimistic take on American Democracy
Rory Truex talks to Princeton professor Frances Lee about her new book, A Case For Congress, and why congress may be performing its functions better than we think.
PIIRS welcomes 2026-27 visitors
On Tuesday, September 8, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome reception for returning and new visiting scholars.
Princeton SPIA Ph.D. Earns India’s Highest Honor for Senior Security Officials
The Indian government has awarded one of its highest honors to Sajid Farid Shapoo Ph.D. ’23, a decorated senior Indian security and counterterrorism official who earned his doctorate in public affairs with a concentration in security studies at the Princeton School of Public and International...
Princeton SPIA Afghanistan Policy Lab Community Shares Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
To mark the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks—an event that profoundly reshaped global politics, international security, and the lives of millions around the world, the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs shares a variety of reflections that...
Behind the Headline: The Iran War and Arab Public Opinion
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran, which retaliated with missile launches of its own within hours. Six months later, the sides remain in conflict, with a peaceful resolution remaining elusive.
Six international scholars selected as Princeton’s 2026-27 Fung Global Fellows
Six exceptional scholars from around the world were awarded the 2026-27 Fung Global Fellowship.