Interview with Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs John Eason about his research and his recent book, "Big House on the Prairie: Rise of the Rural Ghetto & Prison Proliferation."

Margaret Weir is the Wilson Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She co-directs the Stone Inequality Initiative at the Watson Institute. Weir’s research centers on social policy, poverty, and urban politics in the United States and Europe. 

Brown graduate David Blanding returns to the University from the Government Accountability Office to teach Race and Public Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Wendy Schiller, Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy shares her vision for the Taubman Center and student research opportunities.

Questions and Answers with Jeremy Lehnen, Director of the Brazil Initiative at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Professor Michael D. Kennedy's course focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine this year.

Nicolò Fraccaroli is a political economist whose research focuses on populism, central banking, European politics, and austerity. Fraccaroli has co-authored, with Robert Skidelsky, the book "Austerity vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery," which reconsiders the economic and political debate on the austerity policies implemented in the United Kingdom and Europe since 2010.

Daniel Jordan Smith’s newest book on Nigeria, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria, was recently published by Princeton University Press. The Director of the Africa Initiative since 2016, Smith is also the Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies and a professor of Anthropology.

Marcelo Ferraro is a Watson Institute postdoctoral fellow and the inaugural Historical Injustice and Democracy Postdoctoral Research Associate, a joint appointment at Watson and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. His work currently focuses on slavery and racial violence across the Americas in the long 19th century.

We sat down with the Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy Professor Schiller to ask about her plans for the Center over the next three years. 

The Watson Institute spoke with Geri Augusto, senior fellow in international affairs, who helped organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project.