Through Princeton’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC), students can take courses about (and minor in) translation, attend topical lectures and receive funding for translation projects. Every semester, the program, which is housed within the Princeton Institute for...

In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased, multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition. In a new study in Journal of Religious Ethics, Aysenur Cam, 2025-2026 PIIRS Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in the...

Intellectually formidable, groundbreaking and beloved were among the many words used to describe Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor Emeritus, during a two-day conference held in his honor. A multidisciplinary array of scholars from around the world converged on the Princeton campus on...

Around the world, religious and ethnic groups have helped people deal with shocks to their lives and livelihoods for centuries. But ethnicity-based insurance operates through in-group reciprocity and solidarity, which can limit the formation of out-group ties and exacerbate ethnic divisions. In...

Bridging insights from history, politics, culture and the arts, the new minor in European Studies (EUS) invites undergraduate students from across disciplines to explore ideas that have shaped Europe’s past and present.The minor, offered jointly by the Humanities Council’s Program in European...

David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and celebrated translator, died at his holiday home in the village of Doussard in the French Alps, on Oct. 26. He was 80.Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, and professor of French and Italian and comparative...

 Cities are changing the planet at an incredible pace, and urbanization drives evolution — and sometimes extinction — in animals, plants and even microbes. Yet very little is known about how, or how quickly, species evolve to survive alongside humans.A new study in Science aims to...

The Soviet Union was a paradoxical space of both liberation and repression. Bolshevist radical policies opened opportunities for emancipation through enfranchisement, access to education, social mobility and mass welfare. At the same time, Soviet campaigns of political persecution, forced...

World Politics (Volume 77, Issue 4) is available online.  Founded in 1948, World Politics is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published by Johns Hopkins University Press and produced under the editorial sponsorship of...

The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) will now make its home in the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), strengthening their shared mission.Launched in fall 1967, PLAS is one of the nation’s first interdisciplinary centers dedicated exclusively to Latin American...

Two articles published in the July 2024 issue of World Politics received recognition at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, which took place from September 11 to 14, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada.“Elite Management before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North...

On Tuesday, September 2, 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. Attendees included faculty, staff, students and visitors, who represented a wide swath of...

Thirteen Princeton students traveled to Kenya this summer as part of the Global Seminar “Technology for African Languages in the Digital Age,” spending six weeks studying Swahili, collecting and analyzing data in the country, and collaborating with six students from Maseno University to build...

A new professorship of India studies, endowed by a Venture Forward gift from Sumir Chadha ’93, will provide Princeton students with a deeper understanding of India’s culture, history and international relations. Members of the Chadha family gathered at Prospect House on June 24 to celebrate the...

The Princeton University-University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership awarded four faculty research and teaching collaborations. Awards include seed grants, up to $25,000, for short-term collaborations and larger grants, up to $200,000, for longer-term collaborations. Seed grants recipients...

The Amazon, often dubbed “the lungs of our planet,” for its singular capacity to absorb carbon and release oxygen into our atmosphere, has been imperiled on multiple fronts over the last few decades. The Amazon harbors half the world's tropical forests and Earth's largest river basin. Essential to...

Princeton University graduates Beatriz Alcala-Ascencion ‘25, Gustavo Blanco-Quiroga ‘25, Thomas Coulouras ‘25 and Alan Plotz ‘25 were awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse 1926 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.Alcala-Ascencion,...

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 13th cohort of Fung Global Fellows.The Fung Global Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year are:Noureddine Amara, postdoctoral fellow,...

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 demonstrates the importance of international...

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 criteria. They cover the full cost of a postgraduate...