For many of our alumni spread out in 100 countries across the globe, there was no Pardee School when you attended Boston University, only the Department of International Relations. We are now a full-fledged school: YOUR school.
There are many ways to engage with your alma mater, and we hope you do!
Our Pardee School alumni spotlights share the stories of our illustrious alumni and how their experience at BU shaped their professional journey after graduation.
For Anna Trissa (MA GP ’26), the transition from graduate study at the Pardee School to the fast-paced world of policy research has been both immediate and transformative. Now interning with the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., Trissa is already contributing...
In a recent Guardian feature titled "How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?," Professor Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International History, examines the ascent of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, whose disciplined leadership style, expansive social policies, and symbolic connection to everyday Mexicans have made her one of the most popular left-leaning...
As Cuba faces a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Paul Webster Hare, Master Lecturer at the Pardee School and former British ambassador to Cuba offers critical insight into the limits of comparing the island’s current trajectory to recent events in Venezuela. In an interview, conducted by Joe Yans and Eduardo Mendez for the Wyoming Star,...
Lauren Thams, Pardee School's Academic Affairs Administrator, and Claire-Solène Becka, Undergraduate Advisor in Pardee’s Student Affairs and Services office, presented on Monday, June 15th at the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Staff Professional Development Day, highlighting a collaborative effort to redesign the School’s thesis defense experience. The annual conference, centered this year on the...
Kaitlynn Cherry (Pardee '27, BA International Relations & Affairs and Chinese) has been awarded a fellowship to participate in the 2026 APEC Youth Engagement Workshop, organized by the Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston on behalf of the Taiwan Ministry of Education. Each APEC member economy is permitted to nominate...
Professor Noora Lori co-edited a special issue of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press, 2026) that was published this June, and co-authored the introduction article titled "Mobile Temporalities and Political Possibilities: Expanding the Temporal Turn in Migration Studies." Co-written with Anne McNevin (The New School for Social Research) and Loren B. Landau (University of Oxford), the introduction...
Pardee School graduate Isabel Silagy (MA IR and Security Studies '25) co-authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2025), published in December 2025. The chapter, titled "Norms, Legitimacy, and Compliance: Between International Law and Politics," was written with co-author Ezgi Yildiz and appears as Chapter 3...
An article for The Hindustan Times titled When world leaders speak like academics, spotlit the book, The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition (Polity Press 2025), written by Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies and Chilean ambassador, and his co-authors, Carlos Fortin and...