Atif Mian and Noreen Goldman have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The organization, founded in 1780, honors exceptional leaders in academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science and has included such members as Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr..
Mian is the John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor in Public Policy and Finance, a professor of economics and public affairs, and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. His research focuses on connections between financial markets and the macroeconomy, emphasizing the role played by political, governance, and organizational constraints in shaping the effectiveness and scope of financial markets.
“It is a tremendous honor to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” Mian said. “I am especially grateful to my colleagues and students, who make my work both better and more joyful. I continue to be driven by the many policy challenges we face collectively, and I hope to contribute to meaningful solutions.”
Goldman, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, is a specialist in demography and social epidemiology. Her research focuses on the impact of social and economic factors on health and the physiological pathways through which these factors operate. Her current project centers on assessing cardiovascular health among disadvantaged young adults in the U.S. through demographic, clinical, and molecular data.
“I am deeply humbled to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” Goldman said. “It is an incredible honor to join such an accomplished group of scholars.”
Layna Mosley, a professor of politics and international affairs and director of the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab, will assume the directorship of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) on July 1.
The Niehaus Center engages students in both the academic and policy dimensions of globalization and international governance. For the past 20 years, the center was led by its founding director, Helen Milner, the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs.
“Over the last two decades, the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance has facilitated research by early-career scholars and built an intellectual community for graduate students and faculty interested in the politics and governance of the global economy,” Mosley said. “I look forward to continuing NCGG’s role as a center for research excellence, even as the global economy and its governance evolve. I also look forward to expanding our policy engagement in the U.S. and beyond, via the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab and other initiatives.”
Ethan Kapstein, executive director of Princeton SPIA's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and a lecturer with the rank of professor, was selected as a Berlin Prize Fellow for the 2026-27 academic year. Presented by the American Academy in Berlin, the Berlin Prize “is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.”
“It’s an honor to receive a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin,” Kapstein said. “I plan to continue pursuing research on a ‘wicked problem’ — the future of European security at a time of growing threats and a more uncertain American commitment to the continent’s defense. I also look forward to engaging with German and European scholars, policymakers, and industrialists who are working on this topic.”
Amelia Frank-Vitale, assistant professor of anthropology and international affairs, participated in a panel discussion on immigration and the refugee crisis in America during The L.A. Times Festival of Books, held at the University of Southern California.
Frank-Vitale joined fellow authors Jeanne Carstensen and Jazmine Ulloa for an “intimate look at the lives of those who make brave, dangerous journeys across international borders and oceans, the people who risk everything to help get them there, and those who make life as difficult as possible for these people once they arrive.”
Frank-Vitale recently published her debut book, “Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds,” which details the consequences of U.S. border policies on Honduran migrants.
“The panel brought together authors who have written about migration in different contexts — from the historical fluidity at the U.S.-Mexico border and the violence that has been employed to enforce a manufactured division, to a recent shipwreck off the coast of Greece that claimed the lives of many would-be refugees trying to make it to Europe, to my own book on the expanding U.S. deportation regime and its human cost,” Frank-Vitale said. “While each book reflects on prior moments of immigration restriction, the themes addressed have renewed relevance in a moment of resurgent nativism around the world and in the United States.”