Sam Deese and Michael Holm, Senior Lecturers in the College of General Studies and Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, have launched a podcast exploring the challenges democracy faces around the world in the 21st century. The podcast, titled “How Democracy Survives,” is hosted in […]
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Rising Powers Initiative (RPI) at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently appointed Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prof. Miller will assume […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is an urgent need for more effective approaches to connect people from varying cultures and communities to public health solutions in ways that are accessible, helpful, and meaningful. In this Issues in Brief, Marial Williams argues that community engagement through the arts can be a means of improving […]
“The World After Coronavirus,” a video series produced by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, has been adapted by Link TV, a content channel of the Public Media Group of Southern California (PMGSC). The series, which was hosted by Pardee School of Global Studies Dean Adil Najam, featured more […]
A country’s “soft power” rests primarily on three resources: its culture, its political values, and its foreign policies, but it cannot exist on its own. A discussion of China’s or Russia’s soft power in the Western Balkans is inseparable from discussions of their economic or military strength. In this Working Paper from the Rising Powers […]
Joseph Harris and Joshua Shifrinson, Faculty Associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Prof. Harris (Department of Sociology) is an Expert Affiliate of the Pardee Center’s Rising Powers Initiative (RPI). As a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow from 2015-2018, he […]
John Patrick Casellas Connors, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University and a Pardee Center post-doctoral associate from 2015-2018, is the lead author of a chapter in a new book titled Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. The chapter, titled “Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World,” was posthumously co-authored by Prof. […]
Ahmad Azari, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, was awarded the Carole A. Chandler Student Citizenship Award at the 2021 Pardee School of Global Studies Convocation. The Chandler Citizenship Award is the Pardee School’s highest student award and is given each year “to recognize the spirit of citizenship and a demonstration of exemplary commitment to […]
Pamela Templer, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently named the winner of the 2021 University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. The award recognizes “outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside and outside the […]
Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, a Professor of Biology and Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, co-authored a new paper exploring the opportunities for enhanced denitrification in oyster habitats. In the paper, published in the journal Estuaries and Coasts, the authors explain that policy interest in nitrogen removal from oyster habitats has so […]