Watson Faculty Emily Oster and Jonathan Collins were among those recognized in the 2023 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings.

The Costs of War Project has recently released a new study titled "Uncompensated Allies: How Contracting Companies and U.S. Government Agencies Failed Third-Country Nationals in Afghanistan."

Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs Andrew Schrank recently released a new book titled, "The Economic Sociology of Development" published by Wiley.

Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb recently co-authored a paper titled, "More Than Shortages: The Unequal Distribution of Substitute Teaching" in Education, Finance and Policy published by MIT Press Direct.

Associate Professor Ieva Jusionyte discussed the impact of the United States gun industry on violence in Mexico during a lecture titled, "Exit Wounds: American Guns, Mexican Lives, and the Vicious Circle of Violence" at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Senior fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored an article for Rocky Mountain Institute titled, "Next Stop for Climate Action: Making Emissions Visible and Pricing Them."

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently published a paper in the journal Asian Security titled, "The Hard School of Amphibious Warfare: Examining the Lessons of the 20th Century's Major Amphibious Campaigns for Contemporary Chinese Strategy."

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.

Assistant Professor Jonathan Collins recently published a paper for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University titled, "They Only Hate the Term: Explaining Opposition to History Curriculum Policy and Critical Race Theory."

Associate Professor and Faculty Affiliate of the Economics Department, Dany Bahar recently published a paper in The National Bureau of Economic Research titled, "The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezulan Entrepreneurs."

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."

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."

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.

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.

Visiting Professor Lyle Goldstein recently authored a paper in collaboration with the Costs of War project titled, "Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending."

Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Liana Woskie was named a 2022 Guggenheim Emerging Scholar for her dissertation project titled "Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare."

Professor of Economics Mark Blyth recently co-authored a paper titled, "Political Anger: Evidence From Social Media Campaings in the Italian Elections" that measures political anger in social media posts of political parties and candidates during electoral campaigns.

Numerous Watson scholars will participate in the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual conference.

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.

Director of the Annenberg Institute Susanna Loeb among nine research teams at Brown University to be awarded research support from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund.

Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation, co-edited by Mark Blyth, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

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.

Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon recently co-authored a report for Rocky Mountain Institute titled, "Know Your Oil and Gas: Generating Climate Intelligence to Cut Petroleum Industry Emissions".

Professor Robert Blair recently authored a paper titled, "Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early Twenty-first Century" in the British Journal of Political Science published by Cambridge University Press.

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.

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.

Mark Blyth recently co-authored this paper linking two things that are often dealt with separately when discussing what is meant by the word "just" in the notion of a "just transition."

The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS), released a paper that provides an overview of key facts, data, and analysis of issues related to U.S. security cooperation with the Government of Nigeria in the context of ongoing civilian protection, civilian harm, and humanitarian concerns.

Patsy Lewis recently published "Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach" with Routledge.

Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology Ieva Jusionyte was one of 50 scholars chosen to be a 2022–2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow.

Researchers at the Climate Solutions Lab created a map of U.S. military dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

Rob Blair recently co-authored this article on how states can prevent armed groups from exploiting local governance gaps to (re)establish territorial control during transitions to national peace.

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.

Glenn Loury has been elected a 2022 American Academy of Political and Social Science Fellow.

Postdoctoral Fellow Jori Breslawski recently co-authored an article on humanitarian access negotiations with non-state armed groups in International Studies Review.

Jeremy Lehnen recently published a book with the University of Florida Press titled, "Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film."

Dany Bahar recently co-authored, "Human Mobility and the Globalization of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Enterprises," which investigates how reforms that ease or restrict human mobility affect global innovation.

In May 2020, Jayanti Owens was selected as a William T. Grant Scholar for her project, "What Drives Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline? Understanding Mechanisms to Inform Policy Solutions." The grant will allow her to assist schools in developing and evaluating a diagnostic tool to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in student discipline.

Each year, Watson faculty help to edit books and chapters and publish books of their own. Explore the books our faculty worked on this year.

Reid Pauly recently won a Nuclear Security Grant from the Stanton Foundation, which focuses on international nuclear security issues. The grant will support Pauly's forthcoming research, "Threats That Leave Something to Chance."

Emily Oster recently co-authored "Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. States," featuring research that analyzes the impact of district-level schooling modes on test scores.

Emily Oster recently co-authored an article in Nature Medicine featuring a study using a nationwide cohort evaluating the effect of school mode on COVID-19 cases during the 12 weeks after school opening (July - September 2020.)

Reid Pauly and Cullen G. Nutt (U.S. Naval Academy) recently co-authored an article published in International Security 46, 2 (Fall 2021). Together they delve into four case studies of nuclear proliferation in Taiwan, Libya, South Africa, and North Korea.

Prerna Singh recently authored, How Exclusionary Nationalism Has Made the World Socially Sicker from COVID-19, in which she argues that the preexisting notion of exclusionary nationalism has made the COVID-19 pandemic more dangerous than it might otherwise have been.

Jeff Colgan and co-author Miriam Hinthorn (Brown University) recently published a piece in Energy Research and Social Science on the relationship between fuel prices and the global obesity epidemic using data spanning 145 countries between 1998 and 2016.