William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval Studies, has received the 2024 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. He is among 10 recipients of the prize,...
Princeton faculty member Lex Brown, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, and historian Lucas Ramos have been awarded the 2024-25 Rome Prize(Link is external) for independent research in the arts and humanities. Both are Princeton alumni. Recipients are invited to pursue their...
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”The...
During the Fall Break, the International Policy Associates (IPAs)—LISDs selective group of undergraduate pre-professional foreign policy fellows—traveled to Warsaw, Gdańsk, and Kraków to investigate recent and contemporary Polish politics. In meetings with top politicians and key stakeholders across...
The American Physical Society has recognized two scholars at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA) for their contributions to the field of physics. Alex Glaser, an associate professor at Princeton SPIA and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and...
It was a stroke of luck that Aimee Bronfeld decided to be very early to her first day on the job five years ago.As project specialist for the Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW) at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA), she produces one of the University’s most...
Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on literature, compassion and the “oceanic cosmopolitanism” that connects artists and thinkers across continents. Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is...
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Seven students from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs attended the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month. The students met with delegations from around the world and saw firsthand how international policy is...
From the classroom to the Prime Minister’s office, MPA2 students delve into Senegal’s climate policy landscape to develop policy recommendations tailored to local realities.Context is key. That’s one of Devanne Béda-Geuder’s guiding principles in “Strengthening Urban Climate Adaptation and Finance...
How would things be different if you got a do-over? The “what-if” game is always an interesting thought exercise — and for the first time, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Center for International Security Studies (CISS) used this question as the jumping off point for its...
On a recent Tuesday evening, Varun Gauri stepped behind a lectern at the Princeton Public Library not to deliver a talk about political or behavioral economics—topics he teaches at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs—but about Meena and Avi, the two characters in his debut novel...
Several researchers from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs traveled to South Korea in October to brief the country’s policymakers, business leaders, and scholars on critical political and economic issues in the context of U.S.-South Korea relations and the 2024 U.S....
Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on literature, compassion and the “oceanic cosmopolitanism” that connects artists and thinkers across continents. Gurnah was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is...
More than 400 Princeton faculty and staff, industry representatives, venture capitalists and guests attended this year’s Celebrate Princeton Innovation event, the University’s annual salute to its researchers who are patenting discoveries, creating start-up companies and exploring other ventures.“It...
As midterm exams concluded and fall break officially began, Tigers across campus looked forward to the time away to rest, relax, and recharge. However, for a select group of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs MPA students participating in policy workshops, fall break allowed them...
Located in the bustling city of Battambang, Phare Ponleu Selpak is a Cambodian nonprofit that utilizes arts education as a means to heal the traumas of war and celebrate Cambodia’s rich cultural heritage. In the fall of 2023, Princeton’s innovative Novogratz Bridge Year Program — which provides...
The Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism will launch an innovative reporting seminar based in Athens, Greece, in Summer 2025. “Shockwaves: Climate, Migration, and Culture in Greece,” co-taught by longtime journalist Rachel Donadio (The Atlantic) and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eliza Griswold...
Novelist, poet, and essayist Patrick Chamoiseau, Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, has been selected to receive the Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award from the Center for Fiction. The award honors “a writer who, through their exceptional...
Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, a 2024 graduate, and senior Nolan Musslewhite have been named 2025 Marshall Scholars to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. The Marshall Scholarship allows "intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders" to...