Professor Ann Helwege is the latest addition to the Faculty Fellow community at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Prof. Helwege is a Visiting Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University. Her work focuses on the interface between social equity, environment and economic policy in Latin America, especially […]
Each week the Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows meet with Faculty or Research Fellows to discuss their work and experience. On Monday, June 11, 2012 the students met with Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez and participated in a gaming session related to their Games for a New Climate research. On Tuesday June 12, 2012 […]
The 2012 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows participated in a workshop on June 5 that offered tips and advice for conducting research and writing a policy-oriented research paper. Pardee Center Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher and Pardee Center Programs Manager Cynthia Barakatt led the two-hour session. Prof. Gallagher discussed the importance of developing a clear research question, […]
The 2012 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellows arrived at the Pardee House today, marking the beginning of their summer fellowships. The seven selected students will spend 10 weeks based at Pardee House researching and writing papers that will be considered for publication in one of the Center’s publication series. They also will participate in special programs […]
Pardee Faculty Fellows Sarah Phillips and Muhammad Zaman are two of 24 faculty members promoted to tenure positions at Boston University this year. Prof. Zaman is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Molecular & Cellular Dynamics at Boston University. Prof. Phillips is a Associate Professor of History. Her research focuses on the history of […]
Three members of the Pardee Center Task Force on Regulating Global Capital Flows for the Long Run Development have co-authored an op-ed in the Economist’s Forum in the Financial Times. The piece by Pardee Faculty Fellow Kevin Gallagher, and Columbia faculty Stephany Griffith-Jones, and José Antonia Ocampo is titled, “Historic moment for the IMF.” The […]
This Pardee Center Produced Video was filmed at the day-long event, “Games for a New Climate” held on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 and sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Study of the Longer-Range Future. The session followed a Task Force meeting of a small group of scholars and practitioners at the Pardee Center who […]
Pardee Center Director ad interim James McCann has been appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor at Universität Hamburg’s Hiob Ludolf Zentrum für Äthiopistik (Center for the Study of Ethiopia). In residence in Hamburg through early July, he is conducting research for his project on malaria landscape history and teaching a six-week seminar titled “African Environmental History: The […]
Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri authored a guest-blog piece in Triple Crisis, Global Perspectives on Finance Development, and Environment, titled, No Magic Wand: Liberalization and Structural Transformation in India. The piece touches some of the same themes in her recent Pardee Issues in Brief publication, Free Trade and Inclusive Development: Lessons from the […]
Pardee Faculty Fellow Henrik Selin, and 2011 Pardee Summer Fellow Kristin Sippl, co-authored an article titled “Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining” in Environment, Science and Policy for Sustainable Development Magazine. The article is an analysis of the international effort to reduce mining emissions in informal sectors […]