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News September 10, 2024
Princeton SPIA Faculty Provide Reactions to Trump vs Harris Presidential Debate
This evening, faculty from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) provided their reactions to the second presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, and the first between former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala D. Harris. The real-time insights from Princeton SPIA’s distinguished scholars and researchers analyze key moments, evaluate policy discussions, and assess the broader implications for the 2024 election. As part of Princeton SPIA’s ongoing 2024 election analysis, this effort reflects the School’s commitment to contributing to informed public discourse and expert analysis during the election cycle.
SGS's Zia Mian
News September 10, 2024
Carnegie Corporation Awards Science and Global Security Program a $750,000 Grant to Confront Rising Nuclear Weapon Threats
The Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie Corporation of New York. This new investment will support SGS in using scientific, technical, and policy research, education, and outreach to advance effective policies for nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and a safer and more peaceful world free of nuclear weapons.“We’re grateful to the Carnegie Corporation for this new grant and for its sustained and generous support for our work,” said Zia Mian, senior research scholar and co-director of SGS. “This grant enables SGS to develop new ideas and approaches, and to…
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News September 09, 2024
EXCERPT: SPIA’s Staszak Examines the Dangers of Replacing Courts with Private Arbitration
In her new book “Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and the Decline of Public Governance in the U.S.,” Sarah L. Staszak looks at the evolution of arbitration as a means of resolving disputes. In recent decades, the practice has shifted from a lower cost, less adversarial, and more efficient tool for handling disagreements between relatively equal parties to a far more private, non-reviewable, and compulsory one that nearly always favors corporations over individuals, who have been profoundly impacted as a result.“To utilize most consumer products, and increasingly in order to take a job, millions in the U.S. sign away their right to hear disputes in a…
Stephen Jackson ’94 and Marissa Bray ’24
News September 06, 2024
MPAs Across the Decades Build Community of Mutual Support and a ‘Sense of Drive and Commitment’
For 75 years, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Master in Public Affairs program has produced an uncommonly close-knit community of alumni who provide mutual support and mentorship. One of the most recent examples is the connection between Stephen Jackson ’94 and Marissa Bray ’24. Jackson, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya, welcomed Bray to Nairobi as an intern in the summer of 2023, 30 years after he had interned in the same country with Catholic Relief Services.Their association began in January 2023, when Bray participated in a Winter Policy Trip to Kenya and met Jackson, along with…
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News September 05, 2024
Princeton’s SPIA in New Jersey Initiative Names Inaugural Garden State Fellows
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ SPIA in New Jersey initiative has named three recent graduates as its first cohort of Garden State Fellows.Lauren Aung, Madison Linton, and Olivia Ragan, all of whom graduated from Princeton in May, are the inaugural participants in a fellowship program that was created to enhance capacity in New Jersey’s public interest sector, to address critical statewide issues, and to launch young practitioners into public policy careers.The fellowship will support Aung, Linton, and Ragan for the next year as they work within a New Jersey-based policy organization or government agency that is of strategic…
SPIAction Newsletter
News September 04, 2024
SPIAction Newsletter
Welcome to the start of the 2024 – 2025 academic year! This is truly an exciting time at Princeton SPIA. Our students, faculty, and alumni continue to make the most of our space in Washington, D.C., bringing them right to the heart of the policy world. Locally, we are actively engaging through our SPIA in New Jersey initiative. On the international front, we are thrilled to welcome our most globally diverse class to the Princeton SPIA family. Over the past three years, we’ve made significant strides in Africa and Latin America and, this year, we will be focusing our efforts on Asia. The outstanding work emerging from our centers and programs, led by…
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News September 04, 2024
Research Record: Post Hoc Bias in Treatment Decisions
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.”
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News September 03, 2024
Meet the New Undergraduate and Graduate Students … via Emojis!
Move-in Day is done, students are settled, and classes have begun. In true Gen Z fashion, we wanted to introduce our newest Princeton SPIA students and what they’ve been up to using language they’re familiar with — emojis.Best of luck for a wonderful and thought-provoking year!🧡🐅🖤 Among the 133 rising juniors and 125 seniors that represent the incoming undergraduate class, there are … 👥8 peer academic advisers and 3 peer career advisers,🏅81 total student athletes, including🚣21 rowers, the most popular sport represented at SPIA. Our undergraduate students have also completed internships with ... ⚖️the United States Attorney's Office for the District of…
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News August 28, 2024
SPIA Undergrads Successfully Advocate for Extension of UN Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice in Law Enforcement
Princeton SPIA undergraduate students helped to successfully advocate for the United Nations Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of an experts' mechanism that seeks to advance racial justice in law enforcement around the world.Last month, the Human Rights Council voted to reauthorize the Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement (EMLER). The UN mechanism was created in 2021, following the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, as a way of holding governments accountable for international human rights standards and responding to and redressing the issues raised by racial justice protestors. The…
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News August 27, 2024
Research Record: Unlock the Potential of Vaccines in Food-Producing Animals
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.”
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News August 26, 2024
Princeton SPIA Welcomes New Faculty Members for 2024-25 Academic Year
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) will welcome 11 new faculty members for the upcoming academic year. These individuals have dual appointments in the departments of economics, anthropology, African American studies, psychology, and sociology."I’m thrilled to welcome these outstanding scholars to Princeton SPIA," said Amaney Jamal, dean of the School. "Their diverse expertise will provide our students the foundational skills and knowledge to become leaders inside and outside the classroom."New SPIA Faculty Pauline Carry, an…
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News August 22, 2024
SPIAccolades — August 2024
Guadalupe Tuñón, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, won the 2024 David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award for her research “Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires.” The award is presented by the politics and history section of the American Political Science Association.Tuñón's paper, co-authored with Valentin Figueroa, studies the effect of formerly enslaved people’s emancipation on their probability of being incarcerated in early 19th-century Buenos Aires.“I am delighted that…
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News August 21, 2024
Research Record: The Long-Term Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Voting Behavior: The “Moving to Opportunity” Experiment
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.”
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News August 15, 2024
Princeton SPIA Faculty Share Insights on the Third Year of Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan
As Afghanistan marks the third year since the Taliban's return to power, the fellows of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs' Afghanistan Policy Lab and Princeton SPIA faculty members provide their perspectives on the evolving situation in the country. The scholars, specializing in international relations, human rights, counterterrorism, and security, offer their analyses of the challenges and opportunities facing Afghanistan. Their insights below, presented in alphabetical order according to the analysts' last names, shed light on the complex realities of a nation in conflict and the uncertain path ahead. …
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News August 14, 2024
Princeton SPIA Helping to Keep D.C. Policymakers in the Know on Artificial Intelligence
With Princeton University taking a leading role in researching artificial intelligence, the School of Public and International Affairs is playing its part by informing federal policymakers on the latest innovations and shaping new conversations on AI governance.The School and its Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) have launched the Princeton AI Dialogues, a multi-faceted initiative on artificial intelligence that explores the hard policy questions around the development, application, and governance of these extraordinarily powerful technologies. Based at the School’s SPIA in DC Center in Washington, the project is focused on supporting U…