To explore the rise of coffee as a commodity with significant global intersections, students in the “History of Coffee in Africa and the Middle East” course traveled to Ethiopia over fall break to examine the cultural history of coffee in the context of the development of the coffee...

World Politics, a preeminent journal of international relations and comparative politics housed at Princeton University, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. As the quarterly publication looks to its next era, its editorial team is committed to bringing its research to an audience outside...

World Politics, a preeminent journal of international relations and comparative politics housed at Princeton University, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2023. As the quarterly publication looks to its next era, its editorial team is committed to bringing its research to an audience outside...

This past year was the election year. Globally, 64 countries and the European Union — representing a combined population of about 49% of the people in the world — held national elections in 2024.In India, nearly 650 million citizens went to the polls. As was widely expected, Prime Minister Narendra...

“The Global Ghetto” a summer 2024 PIIRS Global Seminar, The Global Ghetto, transported 13 Princeton students to Rome and Warsaw for six weeks of immersive instruction, during which they traced the history of Jewish ghettos from their origins in 16th-century Italy through the Nazi era. “The...

Leonard Wantchekon, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, traces much of his scholarship to his formative years as a student activist in Benin.In the ’80s, he helped found the Front Démocratique du Bénin, a national organization that...

Welcome to the first Princeton Int'l crossword puzzle challenge! Please be sure to submit your completed grid to international.princeton.edu before April 15 to be registered in a contest to win a wifi-free translator device. Good luck!A PDF can be found here.

Embarking on a new partnership between A&A and the École du Louvre in Paris, A&A undergraduate students took part in École du Louvre’s Winter School in January 2025. This 10-day intensive educational program explored the topic “Provenance Research & Duty to Care.” The École du...

At the international conference “Talking about the Torgau Castle Chapel” held January 16–17, 2025, Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann affirmed the significance of the chapel, currently on UNESCO’s “Tentative List” to be deemed a World Heritage Site. After addressing participants of the conference, he...

Situated on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas between India and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan, the “Land of the Thunder Dragon” as the Bhutanese call their country, is a nation blessed with breathtaking natural beauty, ecological diversity, and rich cultural...

A new partnership between A&A and the École du Louvre opens up exciting opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students beginning in January 2025. Undergraduate students are invited to participate in the École du Louvre’s Winter School, a 10-day intensive educational program that...

How did you get the idea for this project? I’ve been worrying away at questions of tragedy more or less since high school, and in 2017 tried to get some of this off my chest by writing a book about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In it, I argued that if we read that play as a distinctively early...

Each year, the Humanities Council’s Program in the Ancient World invites a distinguished scholar from one of its fields to spend a week in Princeton to deliver a lecture, host a seminar, and meet PAW graduate students in an informal setting. This year’s 2022-23 PAW Fellow, Manuel Fernández-Götz...

As we confront the growing climate crisis, society must weigh potential pathways to net-zero emissions. But in the race to decarbonize—including through planting forests and biofuels—a new study finds that well-intended efforts could have unintended impacts on biodiversity, and argues for...

As climate change fuels increasingly destructive hurricanes and typhoons worldwide, a new book provides essential knowledge and tools for understanding, forecasting, mitigating and responding to these devastating storms across the globe.Edited by world-leading scientists who study hydrology and...

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of Arizona have created a simulation that maps underground water on a continental scale. The result of three years’ work studying groundwater from coast to coast, the findings plot the unseen path that each raindrop or melted snowflake takes...

Last May, Neha Agarwal returned to her home city of Delhi, India, to initiate a Princeton study measuring human exposure to extreme heat. Stepping out of the airport “felt like walking into a furnace,” said Agarwal, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering.When Delhi hit an all-time...

For much of history, the past guided builders’ designs. In a stable environment, this usually worked. Roman aqueducts carried water for centuries, and China’s Grand Canal still helps transport river traffic. But in a changing climate, the past may prove insufficient.Gabriele Villarini, a professor...

Playwrights Kate Douglas and Kate Tarker are participating in one-year residencies at Princeton to develop their commissioned pieces exploring how dynamic storytelling can engage vital environmental subjects.Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute and Lewis Center for the Arts...

Researchers at Princeton University have used hyperspectral imaging, a powerful technique that captures pictures containing detailed information about the wavelengths of light reflected, to reveal new details about the plumage colors of a rare hybrid bird-of-paradise. By developing a user-friendly...