PSTC News
PSTC Economist Explores Link Between World War II Labor Policies and Racial Wage Gap
July 3, 2023
PSTC researcher Anna Aizer and her colleagues identify heightened wartime labor demand as source of increased economic opportunity for Black families.
“Immigrant Student Research Project” Creates Living Record of Immigrant Graduate Student Experience
June 12, 2023
PSTC researchers are creating a new national database to record the triumphs of immigrant graduate students and highlight the remaining barriers to educational equity.
Congratulations to our 2023 PSTC Graduates!
May 22, 2023
On Thursday, May 18, members of the PSTC community gathered to celebrate the graduation of 10 PSTC trainees who will receive PhDs from the Brown University Graduate School this month.
PSTC Research Project Traces Spatial Trajectory of Racial Segregation
April 10, 2023
The most recent undertaking of the Urban Transition Historical GIS Project, the Century Project seeks to create a geographical database of historically segregated urban communities.
“Picturing the Pandemic” opens Providence Exhibition
March 14, 2023
Created by the Pandemic Journaling Project, this visual installation offers visitors a democratic history of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PSTC Researcher Madina Agénor Develops a Database of Structural Racism-Related Laws
February 13, 2023
Racism operates at the interpersonal, cultural, and structural levels, marginalizing or excluding minoritized racial and ethnic groups from the social, economic, and political resources and opportunities that represent important social determinants of health—and exposing these groups to higher levels of social, economic, environmental, and psychosocial harms throughout the life course.
PSTC Researchers attend Migrant Health Mini-Conference in South Africa
December 22, 2022
This October, Professor of Population Studies Mike White and PSTC Postdoctoral Research Associate Chantel Pfeiffer gathered with fellow researchers from the Migrant Health Follow Up Study (MHFUS) for a mini-conference at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Public Health in Johannesburg, South Africa.
PSTC Researcher Investigates Accessibility of Land Degradation Data in Colombia
November 23, 2022
As part of his ongoing work with the Land Degradation Neutrality Project (Tools4LDN), Interim Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and Assistant Professor of Population Studies Kevin Mwenda and his colleagues hosted a series of virtual pilot workshops with collaborators in Colombia to assess how current datasets can be better used to monitor the impacts of global land...
PSTC Sociologist Investigates the Impact of School Funds
October 17, 2022
PSTC Sociologist Emily Rauscher has received funding from the Gilead Foundation to study how specific uses of school funds affect education and health outcomes.
PSTC Researcher Embarks on an Initiative to Prevent Future Pandemics
October 11, 2022
Mark Lurie, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the International Health Institute at Brown University, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a complex simulation model for predicting and preventing future pandemics.