Pia Sarah Haykel has been awarded the 2025 Michel David-Weill Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in history at Sciences Po in Paris. Haykel is a history major pursuing a certificate in European Cultural Studies and a minor in Persian.The Michel David-Weill Scholarship was endowed in 2011 to...

This spring semester, In hosting four multidisciplinary visitors, M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI) turned Princeton into a crossroads where India’s most urgent ideas met the campus community, allowing distinct voices to frame how we think about artistic expression, ecology, policy, and...

Princeton University senior Mahya Fazel-Zarandi has been named an international Gates Cambridge scholar, joining senior Joshua Yang, whose award of a Gates Scholarship for U.S. students was announced earlier this year. The awards recognize students for “outstanding academic achievement” and “social...

Members of Princeton University’s Class of 2025 who earned PIIRS' global minors celebrated with a lunch honoring their achievements on Thursday, May 22.The programs in African Studies, Contemporary European Politics and Society, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, South Asian Studies, and...

Princeton juniors Ammon Love and Alex Norbrook, and sophomore Carolina Pardo have been named Udall Scholars. They join a cohort of 55 scholars selected from 381 candidates nominated by 175 colleges and universities nationwide.The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors...

On Friday, May 23, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) hosted a timely discussion on shifting power dynamics and the future of U.S. foreign policy as part of Princeton University's Reunions. About 25,000 alumni, family, guests, faculty, staff and members of the...

The program supports scholars whose research deepens understanding of specific regions while tackling big-picture questions in the social sciences. Fellows will join a vibrant intellectual community of faculty and peers, engaging in regular workshops, interdisciplinary conversations, and...

Matt Lynn has been named the new director for the Novogratz Bridge Year Program, effective May 12, 2025. Matt will rejoin the Office of International Programs— having previously served as the assistant director for Bridge Year from 2019–2022— from his current role as associate director of engaged...

Matt Lynn has been named the new director for the Novogratz Bridge Year Program, effective May 12, 2025. Matt will rejoin the Office of International Programs — having previously served as the assistant director for Bridge Year from 2019–2022, from his current role as associate director of engaged...

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 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...

Shamus Khan, the Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies, studies America’s elite class through the lens of their schools and institutions. He, along with Humboldt University sociologist Daniel Bultmann, is now working on a PIIRS-funded project called “Global Sociology of...

Around campus, they are affectionately known as "frequent flyers:" students who take a determined approach to finding creative ways to see as much of the world as they can through Princeton's offerings. Experiencing other cultures and perspectives can be transformative, personally and...

SAFN is honored to recognize Lucas E.A. Prates with the 2025 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right award for his ongoing research in Brazil’s Amazon. This annual award is given to a student whose work continues and expands Dr. Marchione’s efforts toward food justice, food security and access, and...

The first week of fall marked a flurry of activity at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs as faculty, students, and alumni participated in a host of events around the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and New York City Climate Week, which is timed concurrently to the...

It started with Hi-Chews and an unexpected invitation to “sit at the table.”From my first days with SPO, a few stood out acting as warm enveloping blankets for several years to follow.  When Paloma entered 359 East Pyne during the fall semester of 2024, as she often did just to say “hello”, I...

A longstanding and distinctive feature of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ undergraduate program is the Policy Task Force, an experiential junior-year requirement that lets students work directly on a timely public policy issue and propose their recommendations to government...

Since 2022, graduate students from Princeton University and the University of Tokyo have met annually at the latter institution to present and discuss their research. The fourth annual workshop, examining the role of alliances in the turbulent world of U.S.-China competition, took place in early...