Live Breaking News & Updates on Watson Postdoctoral Fellows
Stay updated with breaking news from Watson postdoctoral fellows. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
May 17, 2021 Five of the up-and-coming scholars who constituted the 2020-2021 cohort of postdoctoral fellows are off to new academic positions in the United States, Europe, and Israel. While they were here, they took full advantage of the opportunity to research, write, and teach that the fellowship affords. “The fellowship gave me the time to finish up a number of projects I had been working on during my PhD, as well as start some new ones,” says Jori Breslawski, a political scientist. “Some of the projects I am most excited about examine the factors behind armed groups behavior toward humanitarians. I have been conducting interviews with humanitarian practitioners who have worked in violent contexts, for which my colleagues at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies have been a great help!” She also managed to write several articles, which are currently under review, and realized her goal of publishing more for the general public. ....
Flexibility, Opportunity, and Community April 13, 2021 Even before he got to Brown, Felipe Felix Mendez ’22 knew he wanted to study something related to international development. “For me, a central question that I wanted to work on in my time at Brown was, ‘What are some of the most effective ways of improving the standards of living of people over time?’” he says. While he had been leaning toward Development Studies, the announcement of the new International and Public Affairs concentration caught his eye particularly the flexibility of the curriculum. “You can choose from a wide variety of electives that are spread across many different departments,” he says. “That has enabled me to make choices about which lenses I want to use to examine questions of development. It’s been very exciting.” ....