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Professor Sarah Parkinson discusses politics of casualty counts in Gaza

Professor Sarah Parkinson takes a closer look at the Gaza casualty data in her recent interview featured on Good Authority, and explains how causaulty counts can become dangerous political tools.


Professor Robbie Shilliam’s new article on International Security and Black Politics

Professor Robbie Shilliam recently published an article titled “International Security and Black Politics: A Biographical Note Toward an Institutional Critique” in the Special Issue on Race and Security in Security […]


PhD Candidate Ronay Bakan awarded Honorable Mention for MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize

PhD candidate Ronay Bakan was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2023 MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize, for her paper “Conflict in Ruins: Counterinsurgent Urbanism and Its Discontents in Northern Kurdistan.” […]


Professor Robbie Shilliam gives Annual Race Equality Lecture at University of Cambridge

Professor Robbie Shilliam gave the University of Cambridge Annual Race Equality Lecture for 2023, entitled “Legacies of the Imperial Academy.


PhD Alumna Nandini Dey awarded ISA-NE Fred Hartmann Award

PhD alumna Nandini Dey has been awarded the 2023 ISA-Northeast’s Fred Hartmann Award for outstanding graduate paper, titled “Subjects, Aliens, and Undesirables: Managing Mobility and Insecurity in Colonial India.” Congratulations, […]


Professor Samuel Chambers publishes new book, Money Has No Value

Professor Samuel Chambers’s new book, Money Has No Value (2023) was recently published by De Gruyter. Congratulations, Sam!


PhD Candidate Sheharyar Imran featured in The Johns Hopkins-Newsletter

Sheharyar Imran discussed the history and importance of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship on “What Comes Next: Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship after Affirmative Action,” an RIC event.


PhD Candidate Sabrina Axster publishes article on the Millennium

PhD Candidate Sabrina Axster published an article titled “We try to Humanise their Stories’: Interrogating the Representation of Migrants and Refugees Through the Shift from ‘Poverty Porn’ to Humanisation and […]


Professor Inés Valdez publishes new book, Democracy and Empire

Professor Inés Valdez’s new book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (2023) was recently published by Cambridge University Press. Stay tuned for her book talk on […]


PhD Candidate Sabrina Axster publishes essay in Oxford University Border Criminologies booklet

PhD candidate Sabrina Axster published an essay in the booklet, The Changing Landscape of immigration detention (2023), published by the Oxford University Border Criminologies series. Sabrina’s piece, titled “Targeting Jewish […]