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Professor Robert Blair granted a seed award

Professor Rob Blair has been granted a 2023 Seed Award for his social sciences proposal titled "Understanding and preventing violence against environmental activists in the Amazon."
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The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship

Reid Pauly and Rose McDermott recently co-authored a paper published in the January issue of International Security titled, "The Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship."
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The Economic Sociology of Development

Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs Andrew Schrank recently released a new book titled, "The Economic Sociology of Development" published by Wiley.
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Digital Scholarship recently launched a project titled, "In The Wake of George Floyd: Mapping Social Movements Related to Systemic Racism in Rhode Island," that focuses on social movements around systemic racism, particularly efforts to end anti-Black racism, in communities in RI and at Brown.
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How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy

Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney recently published a paper in The Journal of Democracy titled, "How India's Ruling Party Erodes Democracy."
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Costs of War Awarded 2022 US Peace Prize

The Board of Directors of the US Peace Memorial Foundation unanimously voted to award the 2022 US Peace Prize to Costs of War "For Crucial Research to Shed Light on The Human, Environmental, Economic, Social, and Political Costs of U.S. Wars."
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Tackling Unlit and Inefficient Gas Flaring

Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Science Magazine titled "Tackling Unlit and Inefficient Gas Flaring," which explains how emissions from flaring threaten the global climate and the health of local communities.
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Does Fake News Affect Voting Behaviour?

Nicolò Fraccaroli co-authored a paper titled, "Does Fake News Affect Voting Behaviour?" that will be published in the January 2023 issue of Research Policy, and is currently available online.
Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney recently published a 17,000-word paper on "India's Democratic Longevity and its Troubled Trajectory" in Democracy in Hard Places, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud.
Eric Patashnik recently authored an essay titled, "Backlash Politics in America's Disunited and Polarized State" for the Studies in American Political Development Journal published by Cambridge University Press.
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Domestic Worldmaking by the Enslaved

Geri Augusto was featured in a virtual symposium to kickoff a longer-term project titled, "Domestic Worldmaking by the Enslaved", which focuses on a collective story-telling typology and integration of diverse work related to the agency and innovations within the domestic practices of individuals enslaved during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Costs of War project among the nominees for the 2022 US Peace Prize, which is awarded by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation to recognize and honor the most outstanding American antiwar leaders.
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies released a research study titled, "Public Action and the Pandemic: The Role of Civil Society in Shaping State Responses" that systematically documents, evaluates, and explains the role that civil society has played in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through an examination of five separate case studies.
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Dany Bahar Awarded a Hilton Foundation Grant

Dany Bahar was recently awarded a Hilton Foundation grant to support his project, Migration Amnesty, Entrepreneurship and Labor Markets Integration: Evidence and Policy Insights on Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Colombia.
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Glenn Loury selected as a 2022 Bradley Prize winner

Glenn Loury has been named a 2022 Bradley Prize winner. The honor recognizes individuals whose outstanding achievements reflect The Bradley Foundation's mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. Loury will receive the award at the 18th annual Bradley Prizes ceremony on Tuesday, May 17th at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn recently published a Climate Solutions White Paper on the threat of a full or partial cut-off of Russian natural gas to the European Union, countermeasures available, and the importance of transitioning to clean energy.