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Kate Furda
Community Profile
August 18, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Kate Furda, Financial Reporting Analyst
“After I graduated with my master’s from @rider_university, I worked as a ghostwriter with an adjunct professor who was writing a book on leadership. That was on the tail end of the financial downturn, and because I was in the unique position of working at Merrill Lynch, I was able to add a lot of my own experience.
Kate Furda
Jonathan Mummolo
News
August 17, 2023
SPIA Researcher’s Analysis Plays Important Role in Lawsuit Victory
Research conducted by a School of Public and International Affairs faculty member was cited extensively in a federal judge’s ruling that the Kansas Highway Patrol acted unconstitutionally in stopping out-of-state drivers to search their cars for illegal drugs. Jonathan Mummolo, an associate professor of politics and public…
Jonathan Mummolo
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News, Q&A
August 15, 2023
SPIA Reacts: Afghanistan Under Two Years of Taliban Rule
August 15, 2023, marks a grim two-year anniversary: that of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. Adela Raz, director of SPIA’s Afghanistan Policy Lab, marks the anniversary below. The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 marked one of the most agonizing moments of the 21st century for Afghan women and girls. Upon…
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Robert Malley
News
August 15, 2023
Senior State Department Official to Join SPIA Faculty as Visiting Professor and Lecturer
A senior official with the U.S. Department of State will join the School of Public and International Affairs faculty this fall. Robert Malley, currently on leave from his role as a special envoy for Iran in the State Department, comes to SPIA as a John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting…
Robert Malley
Zacharia Ahmed
Community Profile
August 14, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Zacharia Ahmed, Undergraduate Academic Advisor
I've been in higher education for the past ten years, starting as an undergrad at @fduwhatsnew, where I was part of a student-athlete mentoring program.
Zacharia Ahmed
Samantha McCann
Community Profile
August 14, 2023
#PolicyProfile: Samantha McCann, Chief Operating Officer, Bridging Divides Initiative
I've always been interested in the intersection of policy and communications. In so many ways, media defines how we see the world. I became interested in looking at the role journalism plays in polarization and whether there is an opportunity for journalism to be a force for good, a force for humanizing one another, and…
Samantha McCann
Autocratic Legalism book cover
News
August 10, 2023
Research Gains New Life as Israel Faces Challenges to Democracy
As pro-democracy protests sweep across Israel, it is a 2018 scholarly article from a Princeton School of Public and International Affairs professor that foreshadows the country’s potential autocratic future while thousands demand change before it’s too late. “Autocratic Legalism,” written by Kim Lane Scheppele and first…
Autocratic Legalism book cover
Zelizer
News
August 09, 2023
DOJ Declares Accountability is “Essential to Our Democracy” With New Trump Indictments
“CBS Sunday Morning” host Jane Pauley sat on a white chair, flanked by blue-green video boards, and perched in front of a purple background as she introduced Julian Zelizer’s commentary on the historical significance of former President Trump’s indictments. When Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of…
Zelizer
Students in Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic course
News
August 08, 2023
An Immersion in Policy Advocacy for SPIA Undergraduates
When the School of Public and International Affairs launched the Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic last fall, nobody knew what to expect. The program, which was designed to teach undergraduates how to find policy solutions for social problems and then engage them in advocacy campaigns to advance those policies, was the first of…
Students in Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic course
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News, Q&A
August 07, 2023
SPIA Reacts: The United States’ Credit Rating Takes a Hit
Last week, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA+. The agency cited the recent standoff over raising the country’s debt ceiling, the country’s debt burden, and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. Layna Mosley, a professor of politics and international affairs in the Princeton…
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