John Friedman, Associate Professor of Economics, has recently been named the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Economics.

Watson Institute Senior Fellow Alex Nading published a special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly on the topic of "Human Animal Health," co-editing the issue with Hannah Brown (Durham University).

In a new article published in International Studies Quarterly, co-author Jeffrey Colgan delves into the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union in the 1950s and sharing nuclear technology internationally.

In her book, Indian activist Aruna Roy tells the story of how a people's movement brought about the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India in 2005.

Senior Fellow Deborah Gordon was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to conduct outreach on the OCI's decision-making potential.

Provost Richard M. Locke was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to support his project, The Future of Work and its Implications for Higher Education.

Senior Fellow Richard Arenberg's recent book, "Congressional Procedure: A Practical Guide to the Legislative Process in the U.S. Congress: The House of Representatives and Senate Explained," has won the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Award and the bronze 2019 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in the Mid-Atlantic region.

While at The American Academy in Berlin, Associate Professor Prerna Singh is working on a project that seeks to explore why polities with similar conditions have been characterized by different levels of containment.

Brown University hosted a conference on the economic and political consequences of climate change, which featured U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and top scholars and analysts. Topics covered included housing markets, stranded assets and the entrenched interests of climate deniers.

In December, Professor Margaret Weir convened "The Political Geography and Inequality in America" workshop to discuss how spatial arrangements influence inequality in the country.

Postdoctoral Fellow Dario Valles was recently awarded the Graduate Student Paper Prize by the APLA for his article, Chill Pills, Play and Panic in a California Administrative Court.

In November, Professors Eric Patashnik and Wendy Schiller convened a conference on "The Dynamics of American Democracy: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance," to explore the current state of democracy in the United States.

Timothy Edgar was recently awarded the 2018 Roy C. Palmer Prize by Chicago-Kent College of Law for his book, Beyond Snowden.

In a new working paper, Professor Emily Oster questions if individual choices influence scientific results.

A new report by the Costs of War Project estimates that the United States has spent and obligated more than $5.9 trillion on the war on terror, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

In a recent article, Nina Tannenwald explores the threat that the Trump administration poses to the seven decade tradition of not using nuclear weapons.

HI² received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a predictive tool to guide the treatment of pediatric diarrhea.

In response to the Lancet's ORBITA study in November 2017, Public Policy program director Eric Patashnik co-hosted a workshop at Yale University to address the research. The result of that workshop is a series of essays on the Health Affairs Blog titled, "ORBITA: Lessons from a Landmark Trial."

In collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, Opportunity Insights, a research and policy institute formed by Harvard and Brown University economists including Associate Professor John Friedman, released an interactive mapping tool called "The Opportunity Atlas." The Atlas helps predict how neighborhoods influence the trajectories of the children who grow up there.

Director of the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, Adam Levine, has been awarded a $2.8 million, five year grant from the National Institute of Health to develop a mobile health app.

In a newly released study, Susan Moffitt, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, partners with Susanna Loeb, new director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and other researchers for Getting Down to Facts II, a project aimed at supporting improvements in California's K-12 public school system, originally released in 2007.

A multi-university course, Democratic Erosion, led by Assistant Professor Rob Blair, closed its first academic year with a full-day conference with faculty and students from across the nation at the Watson Institute.

Senior Fellow Brian Atwood shares a brief history of the United States foreign assistance program, that he presented at the Aspen Institute in Colorado in early August.

In a recent article, Associate Professor Jeff Colgan explains how the market is valuing climate change and the "climate-value paradox."

In a collection of essays put together by Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Besky, examines the confluence of labor and environmental exploitation.

This article written by Nina Tannenwald analyzes the erosion of the current nuclear normative order, focusing on existing, declining, and emerging norms, especially among the nuclear powers.

A new study by the Costs of War Project investigates the United States' government spending in wars since the War of 1812, addressing the relationship between war-related debt and societal inequality.

In a new study published in the American Journal of Political Science, co-author Provost Richard M. Locke uses new data on retailers and manufacturers to analyze how firm-level trade responds to information about social standards.

Based on three years of research in Rio de Janeiro, Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Barnes explores the replacement of state authority with the criminal violence of drug trafficking gangs in favelas (impoverished informal neighborhoods).

Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar examines unarmed collective violence by civilian forces and democratization in a recent article in the American Sociological Associations' journal, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

In her new book, Professor Rose McDermott examines one structural factor that instigates, enforces, and replicates patterns of male dominance: the practice of polygyny.

Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine, co-written by Public Policy program director Eric Patashnik, describes the U.S. medical system, the most advanced in the world, and its insufficient evaluation process of treatments that often become widespread.

An article co-written by Mark Blyth and published in the American Political Science Association, was recently named "Best Paper" by the journal's European Politics and Society organized interest group for 2018.

In May 2017, Professor Eric Patashnik convened a conference on "Health Reform after the 2016 Election," bringing together scholars to examine and discuss the state of health reform. The contributions led to a special edition of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

In new research, Assistant Professor Robert Blair looks at Liberia as a case study for international intervention and the rule of law, following civil war.

A new study by the Costs of War Project explores the environmental situation in Iraq due to the now 15-year old US-led war, as well as the backroom deals made in the context of wartime reconstruction.

A new article co-written by Public Policy Professor James A. Morone analyzes the repeated interaction between Republicans and Democrats when a U.S. president seeks to expand health coverage, and wonders if the Affordable Care Act has broken the pattern.

In a new article in American Sociological Review, Postdoctoral Fellow Ali Kadivar deconstructs the "elitist approach" to democratization by analyzing new democracies from the past half-century.

A recent essay co-written by Michael Kennedy explores sociology's organization around a nuclear contradiction between excellence and reflexivity.

Driven by the U.S. Army's Project Iceworm initiative in Greenland, political scientist Jeff Colgan released a new study on the effects of climate change on military bases.

In new research, Adam C. Levine, Faculty Fellow and Director of the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, joined colleagues to employ the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology to develop eveidence-based guidelines for the care of admitted Ebola patients.

Nina Tannenwald, Director of the International Relations Program, co-edited the new book, Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?, offering a comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare.

In his new book, Professor of European History Omer Bartov examines genocide at the local level, highlighting the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.

In March 2017, political economist Mark Blyth co-hosted a multidisciplinary conference on "The New Financial Geopolitics," that brought about new research on the issue of global monetary stability. These contributions were published together in a new e-book published by Foreign Affairs magazine.

In a recent article in American Ethnologist, anthropologist Sarah Besky explains the inheritance and maintenance of tea plantation houses in Darjeeling, India.

In her new book co-written with Burdett A. Loomis, political scientist Wendy Schiller deconstructs the U.S. Congress in an era of heightened partisanship and increased polarization.

In a new article, Postdoctoral Fellow Nicholas Barnes dives into the world of organized criminal violence, arguing that this violence should no longer be separated from related forms of organized violence, and should be incorporated within political violence literature.

"Preelection Mobilization and Electoral Outcome in Authoritarian Regimes," a new paper written by Postdoctoral Fellow M. Ali Kadivar, studies the effect of preelection protest on the outcomes of authoritarian elections.