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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.
PSTC Researcher Uncovers Educational Disparities among Africa’s Largest Religious Populations
August 4, 2023
In his recently published paper, PSTC economist Stelios Michalopoulos investigates why Christian populations experience higher rates of educational mobility throughout Africa.
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.
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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.
Pandemic Journaling Project makes new home at Syracuse University
February 20, 2024 | Syracuse University News | Kate Mason
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) offers insight into people’s lives and experiences from May 2020 to 2022 in 55 countries through nearly 27,000 online journal entries of text, images, and audio.
Mindfulness training proves effective in reducing hypertension and improving diet
February 13, 2024 | WJAR Providence | Eric Loucks
"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.