Graduate Summer Fellows Meet with Affiliated Faculty Neta Crawford, Kevin Gallagher, and Felice Amato

During the past two weeks, the Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows have had virtual lunch discussions with Faculty Research Fellow Neta Crawford and Faculty Associates Kevin Gallagher and Felice Amato.

On June 15, Prof. Crawford discussed the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, which she co-founded in 2010 to explore the human, financial, environmental, social, and political costs of the post-9/11 wars. In October 2019, the Pardee Center launched a new collaboration with the Watson Institute called 20 Years of War: A Costs of War Research Series to expand the project with a new set of analyses to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the post-9/11 wars.

On June 17, Prof. Gallagher discussed the history and mission of BU’s Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center), for which he serves as the Inaugural Director. The GDP Center, which he characterized as “an outgrowth of the Pardee Center,” aims to promote global development through financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability.

Finally, on June 22, Prof. Amato led an interactive session exploring the use of visual and performing arts to communicate about science and policy research. The Fellows were asked to visually explain their summer research in three minutes using no more than 10 household objects, demonstrating the value of using objects to creatively communicate complex ideas with symbolism and metaphors.

Learn more about this year’s Fellows and their research projects.