This piece originally appeared in the 2023 Princeton Int'l magazine. Read the magazine here.Democracy is under stress in long-established democracies and authoritarian politics is on the rise. This trend contrasts with recent history. The world experienced its longest and deepest democratic wave in...

In the high-stakes world of nuclear arms control, a Princeton doctoral student is exploring how robots can make nuclear inspections more accurate and more acceptable to host nations that may be wary of invasive conventional methods. Eric Lepowsky, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department...

Across the globe, social media and modern hyperconnectivity has had indelible and often insidious repercussions for democracy. Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has been scrutinizing tech’s societal implications since 2005. Last year, CITP launched the Digital Witness Lab,...

The Mpala Research Centre in northern Kenya has been an important international Princeton partner since 1994 when George Small ’43 set up a research center on what was a cattle ranch. The center comprises 48,000 acres of semi-arid savannah and has allowed students and researchers, from Princeton and...

Observing the often-vitriolic discourse that emerged in society surrounding the war between Israel and Hamas, Princeton’s Amaney Jamal and Columbia’s Keren Yarhi-Milo co-wrote a widely cited New York Times op-ed late last month about the vital role universities can play in fostering constructive...

When Cyclone Idai swept through Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park in May 2019, one of nature‘s deadliest forces encountered one of the most technologically sophisticated wildlife parks on the planet. Princeton researchers and colleagues from around the...

World Politics, a scholarly journal based at Princeton, celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2023. The Latin anniversarium contains a form of versus, which means “to turn” or “bend.” Appropriately, when we celebrate an anniversary, we do not turn away but toward the event in the past, to reminisce and...

A Global Seminar explores resistance to authoritarianism in Chile — and how its artists have reshaped history Princeton University students enrolled in an immersive, six-week Global Seminar in Chile received more than an in-depth study of the country’s artistic and political movements over the last...

Ekaterina Pravilova is Rosengarten Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, professor of history, and director of the Program in the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her book, “The Ruble. A Political History” was published in June 2023 by Oxford University Press. How did you get the...

Current Bridge Year India participants Emily Chen and Andrei Florian were recently featured on a podcast hosted by Gap Year Radio for an episode that focused on mindful volunteering. Emily and Andrei reflected on their Novogratz Bridge Year program experience so far including their community partner...

Three Princeton seniors and one alumnus have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2024 and will receive a scholarship for a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Princeton winners are Class of 2023 members Genrietta Churbanova, Thomas Hughes and Oluwatise Okeremi, and Class...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has recently made significant progress on two crucial sensors, or diagnostics, for ITER the multinational facility under assembly in France to study plasma that can heat itself and sustain its own fusion reactions.PPPL...

Hannah Grunow wins the Naomi Schor Memorial award for best graduate student paper at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University (Nov. 2023), for her paper “Art in Passage Toward the Internal: Flaubert, the Artist, & Philosophical Aesthetics” Information about...

The Department of French and Italian (FIT) is kicking off a series spotlighting our amazing alumni and the many things one can do with a concentration in FIT. First up is Khameer Kidia, Class of 2011.Kidia is a writer, anthropologist, and global health physician at Harvard Medical School and the...

Ryo Morimoto is Assistant Professor of Anthropology. His book, “Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone” was published in April 2023 by University of California Press.How did you get the idea for this project?I worked as a translator for a foreign documentary film on Fukushima...

There are certain things considered standard for first-year Princeton students: extra-long bed sheets, all-seasons attire for cross-campus treks, a laptop. But for some lucky students enrolled in freshman seminars with an international travel component, add to that list a passport and a healthy dose...

Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. When Aneekah Uddin, a senior majoring in computer science, was exploring semester-long study abroad opportunities, she initially browsed program offerings that were related...

Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. As China’s economy and global presence continues to grow and evolve amid escalating geopolitical tensions, there is an increasing need for future world leaders to better...

Story was originally published in the 2023 edition of Princeton University’s international magazine, Princeton International. As the last academic year came to a close at Princeton University, I was enveloped by a sense of homesickness. Although I was raised in Georgia, this homesickness stemmed...

This special summer study abroad program is custom-tailored for Princeton University students and offers eight weeks of full linguistic and cultural immersion, equivalent of RUS 101-102 or RUS 105-107 (transfer credit), at the Tallinn University in Estonia. Program details: Russian Summer Program...