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2024 PSTC Call for Graduate Student Summer Research Awards
April 10, 2024
The PSTC is now accepting applications from graduate students for summer 2024 research awards. Summer research support nurtures research projects consistent with the PSTC’s mission to promote innovative and high-quality...
Brown at PAA
April 3, 2024
Appearances of Brown University Faculty, Researchers, and Students at the PAA 2024 Annual Meeting | April 17-20, 2024 | Columbus, OH
PSTC Call for Proposals for Mellon Anthropological Demography Awards
March 28, 2024
The PSTC welcomes proposals to advance Brown’s research and distinctive reputation in anthropological demography.
Pandemic Journaling Project Made Accessible to Researchers at New Long-Term Home
March 1, 2024
Researchers studying the COVID-19 pandemic will maintain wide access to this paradigm-shifting historical record at its new placement at Syracuse University
Investigating the Link Between Intra-Occupation Job Variation and Gender Segregation in the Workplace
January 31, 2024
Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.
Entrepreneurial Responses to Infrastructure Failures in Nigeria
December 18, 2023
PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.
The Launch of a Project on Mesoamerican Migration
November 16, 2023
Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
A Community-Driven Project to Analyze Local Drug Supply
October 17, 2023
As part of the TestRI research project, PSTC epidemiologist Alexandra B. Collins worked alongside RI community partners to better understand and mitigate local overdose risk.
PSTC Researcher Investigates Social Determinants of Gender Differences in Dementia
September 5, 2023
Assistant Professor of Population Studies Meghan Zacher explores potential link between educational inequality and women’s increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
In the News
Journaling project keeps a record of COVID-19 pandemic
April 11, 2024 | WBUR | Kate Mason
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Anthropologist Kate Mason about the Pandemic Journaling Project and how important it is to have a record of this time.
Global Displacement Crisis: Over 108 Million People Displaced with Children Bearing the Brunt
April 4, 2024 | Il Mattino | Dany Bahar
In 2023, over 108 million people have been forced to flee worldwide, and 41% of these are children under the age of 18. This creates disparities in human development between migrant children and adolescents and those of...
We’ve Been Underestimating Discrimination
March 27, 2024 | Chicago Booth Review | Peter Hull
New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.
“No Fear or Danger of Their Forgetting it:” Revitalizing Wôpanâak from John Eliot’s Bible
March 22, 2024 | The Magazine of the Harvard Crimson | Linford Fisher
Deep in the basement of Harvard’s Indian College, John Eliot worked for 14 years to translate and print the Bible. Completed in 1663, Eliot’s Bible was written in Wôpanâak, the language of local Native American tribes.
Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic
March 14, 2024 | Providence Business News | John Papay
In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest...
America should thank immigrants for the ‘soft landing’
March 6, 2024 | The Hill | Dany Bahar
With numbers for January showing that inflation stands at 3.1 percent down from 9.1 percent inflation peak in mid-2022, the “soft landing” scenario — reducing the post-COVID era inflation without tipping into a recession—...
There was an outcry about ‘practice babies’ on TikTok. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
March 1, 2024 | USA Today | Jessica Leinaweaver
No perfect parenting method exists. But a number of decades ago, educators thought differently – so much so that they acquired babies from local orphanages for home economics students to "parent."
Disasters Forced 2.5 Million Americans From Their Homes Last Year
February 27, 2024 | The New York Times | Elizabeth Fussell
Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.