The Pardee School’s Centers, Institutes, and Initiatives aim to both develop and share knowledge of specific regions and their states, societies, cultures, languages, peoples, and environment. They foster rigorous, transformative scholarship that crosses existing national, regional, and disciplinary boundaries.
The Center for Latin American Studies in the Frederick S. Pardee School recently received a generous gift of $1 million from Boston University alums Antonio Gomes (LAW’96), who is also a BU trustee, and Dean’s Advisory Board member Maria Cristina Dos Santos De Souza (Pardee’20).
Sunil Sharma Announced Center for the Study of Asia Director.
Ana María Reyes Named Director of Center for Latin American Studies.
Vesko Garčević Appointed Director for Center for the Study of Europe.
Min Ye Named Interim Director of Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Pardee Center has announced the names of eight BU graduate students for the 2025 Graduate Summer Fellows Program.
Frederick S. Pardee School’s Readers in Ajami (RIA) project has developed three African Ajami Readers in Wolof, Mandinka, and Hausa.
The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies hosted its Second Annual Conference on the Jewish Left on February 28, 2025. Since its launch in 2024, the conference has quickly become an important space for discussions on Jewish intellectual and political issues, bringing together...