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News June 20, 2019
Deaton Receives Honorary Degree from the University of Cambridge
Sir Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was honored June 19 with an honorary doctor of letters (Litt. D.) degree from the University of Cambridge, his alma mater. He is among the handful of honorees to receive doctorates from the Congregation for Honorary Degrees.His fellow honorees included the ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, the novelist Marilynne Robinson, the social justice campaigner Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, and the conductor Sir Mark Elder.Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of economics and international affairs, emeritus, at Princeton…
News June 10, 2019
Two Woodrow Wilson Faculty Named Winners of APSA Book Awards
Two professors at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs are winners of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) annual book awards.Rafaela Dancygier is winner of the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award for her book, “Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics,” and Deborah Yashar is winner of APSA’s Comparative Democratization Section 2019 Best Book Award for her book, “Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America.”Dancygier is associate professor of politics and international affairs. Her research focuses on comparative politics, specifically international…
News June 10, 2019
Experts Discuss the Political Economy of Conflict Spaces at Annual Conference
The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC), a network of scholars at Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California San Diego (UCSD), held its 10thAnnual Meeting on May 9 and 10 at UCSD. The meeting, which drew nearly 100 attendees, continues to bridge the gap among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers across the world to discuss global conflict.This year’s theme, “Political Economy of Conflict Spaces,” was organized around a series of academic sessions on such topics as state capacity, crime, and violent extremism. The conference also included workshops on the use of big data and…
News June 07, 2019
Congratulating 123 Woodrow Wilson School Seniors in Princeton’s Great Class of 2019
On June 4, 123 seniors who majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs graduated as part of Princeton University’s Great Class of 2019. Among them are members of Ivy League championship teams, class officers, college theater thespians, residential college council members, Pace Center for Civic Engagement volunteers, and Orange Key tour guides.Within the School’s multidisciplinary liberal arts major, the seniors researched some of today’s most important policy issues, from mass incarceration and the persistence of poverty in the U.S., to the future of Syria and U.S.-China relations. Many were fortunate to study abroad in…
News June 05, 2019
Woodrow Wilson School Awards Advanced Degrees to 91 Future Leaders in Public Service
At a Hooding Ceremony reception held in Frist Campus Center June 3, Dean Cecilia Rouse congratulated 91 graduate students who earned advanced degrees from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Their ranks include four Ph.D. students, 67 Master in Public Affairs (MPA) students (including two MPA/J.D. and one MPA/MBA), and 20 Master in Public Policy (MPP) students.At the Woodrow Wilson School, they received an education centered around a “policy toolkit” of skills that can be applied domestically or internationally, at the local, regional, and national levels, to address the difficult policy challenges of our…
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News May 28, 2019
A Tribute to Uwe: Academics Debate Future of U.S. Health Care
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News May 23, 2019
Facebook Data Transparency Advisory Group Releases Final Report
On May 23, 2019, Facebook’s Data Transparency Advisory Group (DTAG) released its independent report, which assesses Facebook’s methods of measuring and reporting on its Community Standards enforcement policies.DTAG is composed of seven experts, including Jacob N. Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, from various disciplines who specialize in measurement and the role that metrics play in building legitimate, accountable institutions.Facebook chartered DTAG (a) to assess the metrics included in the first two versions of its Community Standards…
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News May 06, 2019
Artist Walter Hood Describes Upcoming Installation about Woodrow Wilson’s Complex Legacy at Recent Public Talk
Artist Walter Hood discussed his proposed design for a new campus installation about Woodrow Wilson at a recent public talk at Princeton University’s Friend Center. Co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Campus Iconography Committee, the talk presented an opportunity for the community to learn more about the sculpture. Focusing on both the negative and positive aspects of Wilson’s legacy, the piece will be erected adjacent to the Fountain of Freedom on Scudder Plaza, with construction beginning next month.The 39-foot piece will be a vertical sculpture of two columnar elements, one leaning on the other,…
News May 03, 2019
Q&A: Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
Health care in America is expensive, but it doesn’t have to be, according to the late Uwe Reinhardt, former James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics at Princeton University.A leader in health care policy, Reinhardt provides an incisive look at the American health care system in a new book, “Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care,” published by Princeton University Press.Reinhardt taught at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Economics for nearly 50 years. Throughout his career, he strongly influenced American health care, serving as an…
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News April 30, 2019
Two Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Forty percent of the newly elected members are women — the most ever elected in any one year to date.Among those elected into this newest class of distinguished members are four Princeton University faculty, two of whom are based at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From the Wilson School, Janet M. Currie and Helen Milner join Princeton faculty Nieng Yan and Ali Yazdani.Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public…
Andrew Guess
News April 30, 2019
Guess Receives Research Funding to Study Online Polarization and Misinformation
Professor Andrew Guess will study online polarization and misinformation through a research project funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Social Science One.The Social Media and Democracy Grants provide the first opportunity for systematic scholarly access to privacy-protected Facebook data to study the platform’s impact on democracy worldwide.The funding was awarded to a team of researchers from New York University, where Guess was a postdoctoral fellow prior to coming to Princeton. Guess is now an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs…
Isabel James
News April 23, 2019
Isabel James ’19 Wins Labouisse Prize for International Civic Engagement Projects
News April 23, 2019
Miguel Centeno Named Vice Dean of Woodrow Wilson School
Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, has been named vice dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The three-year term is effective July 1, 2019.In his new role, Centeno will oversee the graduate and undergraduate academic programs for the Woodrow Wilson School. He succeeds Brandice Canes-Wrone, who served as vice dean from 2015 to 2019.“Miguel has a wealth of knowledge with regard to academic advising and mentoring and a keen, diverse perspective when it comes to academic programming,” said Dean Cecilia Rouse. “We’re delighted to have him serve as vice dean.”“I am very much looking forward…
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News April 22, 2019
Opinion: Can China Deliver a Better Belt and Road?
News April 18, 2019
Two Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two faculty members from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs have been elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences.Professors Kathryn Edin and Sara McLanahan are among more than 200 leaders in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs elected this year in recognition of their respective fields. They will be inducted at a ceremony in October in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Edin, professor of sociology and public affairs and co-director of the Center for Research on Child Well-being, is one of the nation’s leading poverty researchers, working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family…