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Fall 2025 practitioner-led study groups

These not-for-credit study groups provide an opportunity for students to delve deeply into topics and apply theory and research to real world challenges. Enrollment in each group is limited to 25 students.
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Robert Blair receives Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award

Robert Blair has been named the 2025 recipient of the Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career contributions to the field of comparative politics.
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Alumni Spotlight: Derrick Zantt ’16 MPA

Derrick Zantt earned his master's degree in public affairs from Brown in 2016. A fourth-generation service member, Zantt currently works as an analyst for the Department of Defense, where he puts his belief in open data and the knowledge he acquired at the Watson Institute to influence policy.
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Alumni Spotlight: Sonia Cuesta ’17 MPA

Sonia Cuesta, who earned her Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree from Brown in 2017, was happy to give back to the program that helped her establish a career in human rights and international relations. During the spring 2025 semester, Cuesta supervised a new generation of MPA students' Policy in Action project from her position at the United Nations.
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Ieva Jusionyte wins multiple awards for latest book ‘Exit Wounds’

Ieva Jusionyte’s 2024 book, "Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border," has won multiple awards, including the Juan E. Méndez Book Award and two awards from the Association of American Publishers.
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The Watson School of International and Public Affairs launches with ambitious plans for the coming year and beyond

Brown's first new school in over a decade, the Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs, launched on July 1. Plans for the new school include broadening the scope of research, expanding the faculty, and breaking down traditional barriers between disciplines to address the world's most pressing economic, political, social and policy challenges.
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor

New research by the Watson School's Bryce Millett Steinberg, funded by the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research, finds that early childhood interventions in places with high child labor rates lead to reduced schooling.
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