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 Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed eight Boston University graduate students as the 2026 cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows Program. Running from May 26 through July 31, the 10-week fellowship provides master's and doctoral students with the opportunity to conduct independent, future-oriented, policy-relevant research while participating in...
Professor Sunil Sharma, Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) and a leading scholar of Persianate literary and cultural history, recently returned from the prestigious Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, where he is conducting ongoing research on the...
At the end of the 2026 academic year, Boston University's Center for the Study of Asia announced the winners of their inaugural Student Paper Prize Contest! This highly competitive award gifted undergraduate students with $300 and a graduate student with a $750 prize. The broad criteria led to an impressive submission pool spanning a range...
Each spring semester, the Pardee School’s African Studies Center (ASC) brings together students, faculty, and the wider community for its annual African Theater Night and Community Dinner. This year, a full house of over 55 audience members gathered on April 28th, to enjoy another evening of celebrating language, culture, and creativity. Students in the African...
ASC's African Ajami Project expands access to four major West African languages with groundbreaking initiatives and programs.
Urban Refuge, the refugee resource initiative launched a decade ago, has reached a major milestone with the debut of its new website, UrbanRefugeMap.org. Originally developed in 2016 as part of Professor Noora Lori's “Forced Migration Policy Incubator” course, the project has since evolved into a signature Pardee School effort involving dozens of students and alumni....
The Frederick S. Pardee School welcomed Professor Justin Yifu Lin as the speaker for the 2026 Anthony C. Janetos Memorial Distinguished Lecture, where he delivered an in‑depth talk titled China’s Modernization: Path and Implications. As one of the world’s leading scholars of development economics and China’s political economy, Lin drew on a career spanning academia...
A new report titled “Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism? An Assessment" by Marc Sommers, Affiliated Researcher at the Pardee School's African Studies Center, is prompting a critical reassessment of one of the world’s primary approaches to addressing violent extremism. Co-authored with Mai Nasrallah for the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), the report examines whether widely adopted P/CVE...