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On Chika Okeke-Agulu’s credenza, leaning against the wall of his office in Princeton’s Green Hall, are two powerful images: the cover of a vintage magazine and a photo that graces the cover of one of his recent books.

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Creative writing professor Aleksandar Hemon’s life was upended by war. In 1992, he was a 27-year-old journalist on an international visitors’ program in the United States when war broke out in his homeland of Bosnia.

Princeton Int’l spoke with Wantchekon about peaceful conflict resolution and the African School of Economics, a project helping to erase some of Africa’s colonial legacies.

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Latin American Historian Corinna Zeltsman Awarded NEH Grant
Corinna Zeltsman, assistant professor of history has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in a round of awards to humanities projects nationwide.
Four Princeton Seniors Awarded ReachOut Fellowship for Public Service
Princeton University seniors Sarah Brown, Caroline Subbiah, Marissa Mejia and Mandy Qua have been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Their projects focus on strengthening New York City’s...
Brazilian environmentalist Veríssimo asks ‘Can Lula save the Amazon?'
Beto Veríssimo, senior researcher at Imazon, a “think-and-do” think tank based in the Brazilian Amazon, joined Matias Spektor, professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas, for “Brazil is Back,” a debate about the future of public policy and sustainability in...
Princeton ReachOut Fellowship Awardees to Focus on Refugees, Sustainable Farming
Four Princeton University seniors have been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Their projects focus on strengthening New York City’s preparedness initiatives in response to climate change,...
PIIRS, Princeton community celebrate Global Japan Lab
On Thursday, Feb. 16, the Global Japan Lab (GJL) invited the Princeton University community to learn more about its multidisciplinary research, teaching and training initiatives on contemporary Japan, in the atrium of the Frick Chemistry Laboratory.
PIIRS, Princeton community celebrate Global Japan Lab
On Thursday, Feb. 16, the Global Japan Lab (GJL) invited the Princeton University community to learn more about its multidisciplinary research, teaching and training initiatives on contemporary Japan, in the atrium of the Frick Chemistry Laboratory.
Why Prof. Ashoka Mody Believes India is Broken
Ashoka Mody is an economic historian at Princeton, but writes, his “heart is in India.” It’s through this lens that Mody, formerly of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, channels his finance- and policy-driven analysis of the world’s second most-populous country. Weaving history,...
Princeton on ice: Documenting climate change at the ends of the Earth
At the northern and southern tips of our planet are tiny bubbles of air trapped for millions of years within polar ice. These microscopic time capsules hold a record of Earth’s atmosphere — and thus its climate history. “Ice is time, crystalized,” said Princeton environmentalist Anne...
Princeton professors launch new open access book at PIIRS Director’s Book Forum
On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Princeton University professors Jeremy Adelman and Gyan Prakash discussed how writers, artists, musicians and photographers created new institutions of solidarity, new expressions and alternative narratives to the imperial ones that they had inherited, as part of...
Neil Blackadder’s choice: multiplayer translation
Princeton University Translator-in-Residence Neil Blackadder does not play video games, but chose to title his upcoming talk, “Translation as a Multiplayer Game.”