Project is a collaborative project of researchers in India and Brown University. The project aims to systematically collect data on urban India, focusing in particular on assessing the quality of ...

Graduate and Undergraduate fellows of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia will participate as active members of the Saxena Center community for a period of one year. The fellowship will ...

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Are you a Brown University Ph.D. student working in Latin America or the Caribbean? If so, you may be interested in applying for the 2025 Field Research Pre-Dissertation Grants.

Join us in conversation with Catarina Lorenzo, Director of the RI-based organization Alliance to Mobilize our Resistance (AMOR); Liz Sweet, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and ...

The state and governance in China have commonly been seen as non-religious. However, this does not imply they are devoid of ritualistic elements. As both the current CCP leadership and ordinary people ...

David Mittelman is a doctoral student and teaching assistant. He is currently pursuing two lines of research in Brazilian literature. The first develops a comparison of the literatures of the ...

Why is America living in an age of profound and widening economic inequality? Why have even modest attempts to address climate change been defeated again and again? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay ...

Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University ...

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique ...

Data from War Spending and Lost Opportunities (2019) by Heidi Peltier. Military spending by the federal government is often considered a vital support to employment and economic recovery. However, ...