Institute Staff

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

  • Sims on the Closing of UERJ
    Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for the Washington Post (Aug 18, 2017) about the closing of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The school, which has the reputation for being one of the best universities in the country and has done the most to address educational inequality in Rio, has closed...

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  • Former Fellow Shannon Sims on Climate Change
    Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for The Guardian about how climate change will seriously affect the lives of people living in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Despite the fact that Cameron may be the first place swamped by rising sea levels in the US, many of the residents still are not convinced about climate...

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  • Slate Magazine interviews Past Fellow Hansen
    In an article for Slate, Isaac Chotiner recounts his conversation with Hansen regarding her experiences detailed in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.   Click here to read the full article....

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  • Former fellow Joel Millman on Yemen
    Former fellow and current ICWA trustee Joel Millman (1987-1989, El Salvador) was interviewed by Ari Sharpiro of NPR’s All Things Considered. Millman, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, shed light on smugglers off the coast of Yemen. In this last week, smugglers have threw “as many as 280 migrants into the waters off the coast...

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  • Robbie Corey-Boulet in World Politics Review
    Check out former ICWA Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2012-2014) in World Politics Review with his new article titled “Will Zimbabwe’s Latest Opposition Alliance Outdo Its Predecessors?”  Click here for the article! Note: This article exists behind the WPR pay wall....

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  • Neri Zilber in the Daily Beast
    Former ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber (Israel 2011-2013) recently published an article about Israeli media conspiracy claims in the Daily Beast titled “How Netanyahu Can Outrun the Cops.”  Read the whole article here!...

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  • Positive reviews for Suzy Hansen’s “Notes on a Foreign Country”
    Just days before the books release, former ICWA Fellow Suzy Hansen’s (Turkey, 2007-2009) new book continues to receive great reviews. Check out these two from The Atlantic and The Christian Science Monitor.  Click here to pre-order the book. Click here to check out our ICWA event with Suzy Hansen on August 17th with the Pulitzer...

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  • Suzy Hansen’s releases book excerpt in The Guardian
    As former ICWA Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009) ramps up to release her new book, check out this excerpt in The Guardian.  Follow the link here to pre-order her book. Click here to check out our ICWA event with Suzy Hansen on August 17th with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting!...

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  • Nicholas Schmidle in The New Yorker
    Nicholas Schmidle (Pakistan, 2006-2008) recently published an article titled “The U.S. Has More to Lose Than Russia in Spy Expulsions” in The New Yorker.  Read the whole article here!...

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  • Former fellow Nicholas Schmidle writes in The New Yorker
    Former Fellow Nicholas Schmidle (Pakistan, 2006-2008) wrote an article for The New Yorker regarding U.S. – Russia spy expulsions. Schmidle notes that these expulsions are more detrimental to the U.S. than they are for Russia. Click here to read the full article....

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