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In a year when the value of global engagement has been questioned, the University’s international community of faculty, researchers and students at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Office of International...
Brian Kloeppel, hired in June as the inaugural director of the Mpala Secretariat, knows field research centers. As a professor of natural resource conservation and management at Western Carolina University, a role he held for 17 years, his time spent...
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) supports bold, collaborative projects that connect faculty research with the wider world. Through competitive grants of up to $75,000 over three years, PIIRS advances innovative...
Shamus Khan, the Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies, studies America’s elite class through the lens of their schools and institutions. He, along with Humboldt University sociologist Daniel Bultmann, is now working on a PIIRS...
Fellowship Advising, a division within the Office of International Programs, assists undergraduates and recent alumni as they navigate the complex landscape of identifying and applying for fellowships, scholarships and grants, many of which support...
Around campus, they are affectionately known as "frequent flyers:" students who take a determined approach to finding creative ways to see as much of the world as they can through Princeton's offerings. Experiencing other cultures and perspectives...
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Indigenous Scholars Unlock Princeton’s Remarkable Maya Manuscript Collection and its Crucial Research Potential
Lucas Prates 2025 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right winner
SAFN is honored to recognize Lucas E.A. Prates with the 2025 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right award for his ongoing research in Brazil’s Amazon. This annual award is given to a student whose work continues and expands Dr. Marchione’s efforts toward food justice, food security and access,...
Program in Latin American Studies now housed in PIIRS, strengthening their shared mission
Living on the Edge in the Immersive Princeton in Argentina Course
When I signed up for Princeton in Argentina, I never imagined the summer course would involve hanging off the side of a cliff in the Andes Mountains, looking over a creek of r
Donation of Puerto Rican Graphic Artworks to Princeton University Library
Thanks to the generosity of SPO emeritus Professor Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones and his wife Alma Concepción, the Princeton University Library has received a trove of graphic artworks by renowned
Hi-Chews to High Peaks: SPA 204 through a new lens
It started with Hi-Chews and an unexpected invitation to “sit at the table.”
Ancient Black Pea Holds Promise for a Warming Himalaya
Ecologist Harman Jaggi first visited India’s cold desert Trans-Himalaya mountains to study snow leopards. But while climbing the steep, rocky slopes above the tree line, something else caught her attention: the black pea and barley powder that local hosts offered her to mix into tea. “It would...
How Indigenous Knowledge Can Reshape Conservation
New article in Science argues that ancient ecosystem and multispecies expertise could lead to a new, integrated conservation science in the Amazon and beyond.
Nicaraguan Social Justice Activist Dora María Téllez Joins Princeton as a Visiting Scholar
Dora María Téllez joined the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) as a Visiting Research Scholar June through August 2023. Her visiting fellowship was made possible with the support from PLAS, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton School of Public...
ESOC Convenes First Latin American Conference
Last month, for the first time, SPIA’s Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project convened a conference in Latin America, gathering in Bogotá, Colombia, for more than a dozen presentations of working papers on conflict, crime, state legitimacy, political participation, and migration...