The 2022-2023 Watson Director's Fellowship projects and MPA fellows are listed below. Fellows will work on their projects from October to January and have several opportunities to learn from practitioners in the international and public affairs space. They will also present their work and learnings at a workshop early in the Spring Semester.
Watson Director’s Fellowship Projects, 2022-2023
"Afghan Evacuee Experience Research and Needs Assessment"
Project Sponsor: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, in partnership with the Refugee Dream Center (RDC)
Faculty Lead: Adam Levine, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice
Project Supervisor: Alexandria Nylen
Director’s Fellow: Nilab Ibrahimy
"Business Responses to Climate Ambitions"
Project Sponsor: Climate Solutions Lab
Faculty Leads: Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs; and Alexander Gard-Murray, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Director’s Fellow: Anza Hayat
"Carbon Intensity and Local Growth Models"
Project Sponsor: Rhodes Center for International Economics & Finance
Faculty Leads: Mark Blyth, The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs; and Dan Driscoll, Postdoctoral Research Associate
Director’s Fellow: Sarah Perumattam
"Chinese Foreign Policy through the Lens of Key Bilateral Relationships"
Project Sponsor: China Initiative
Faculty Lead: Lyle Goldstein, Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Director’s Fellow: Hengqi Li
"Development and Demography: Gender, Family, and a Generation of Change in Africa"
Project Sponsor: Africa Initiative
Faculty Lead: Daniel Jordan Smith, Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology
Director’s Fellow: Tzion Jones
"The Financialization of Social Policy"
Project Sponsor: Stone Inequality Initiative
Faculty Leads: Margaret Weir, Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science; and James A. Morone, John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies
Director’s Fellow: Kyler Groner
"In the Wake of George Floyd: Responses to Anti-Black Racism in Rhode Island"
Project Sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Faculty Lead: Patsy Lewis, Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Director’s Fellow: Starrchild Jackson
"Reproductive Rights and Mobilization in the MENA Region"
Project Sponsor: Center for Middle East Studies
Faculty Lead: Nadje Al-Ali, Robert Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Director’s Fellow: Narjes Jafarian
"U.S. Security Assistance Report Series"
Project Sponsor: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Faculty Lead: Adam Levine, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice
Project Supervisor: Alexandria Nylen
Director’s Fellow: Marzia Giambertoni
"Voting Rights and the 2022 Midterm Elections"
Project Sponsor: Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Faculty Lead: Wendy J. Schiller, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science, Professor of Political Science
Project Supervisor: Othniel Harris
Director’s Fellow: Jason Barajas