Category: In the Media
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Awards for GDL Faculty
Professor Volha Charnysh received multiple awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe (Cambridge University Press), including the Merze Tate–Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award, the 2025 William Riker Prize for Best Book in Political Economy, the 2025 European Politics and Society Section Best Book Award. The…
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GDL Director Evan Lieberman Featured in The New York Times
GDL Director Evan Lieberman was recently featured in an opinion piece, “What the U.S. Open Tells Us About America,” published in The New York Times. In the article, he reflects on how tennis illustrates that a global outlook can coexist with the pursuit of national success: “The pursuits of American and global interests need not…
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Global Solidarity
Report 2024Global Diversity Lab Director Evan Lieberman was a contributor to the Global Solidarity Report 2024, which was released last month. The findings of the report issue a stark warning as power shifts continue and divisions between countries seemingly widen. This year, the world has scored just 36 out of a possible 100 on the Global Solidarity…
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GDL Director
Evan Lieberman
featured in
MIT NewsIn a recent interview published in MIT News, GDL Director Evan Lieberman discusses his research into perceptions among African and American citizens about the climate crisis and how their governments are responding. Click here to read the full article in MIT News.
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Global Solidarity
Report 2023Global Diversity Lab Director Evan Lieberman was a contributor to the Global Solidarity Report 2023, which was released today. For the first time ever, this report presents a tool designed to measure global solidarity and sets out a pathway of how to strengthen it. Championed by world leaders, advocates and scholars, this report highlights three…
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GDL Faculty
Noah Nathan and
Ariel White featured
in MIT NewsIn a recent interview in MIT News, GDL faculty affiliates Noah Nathan and Ariel White spoke about their experience coordinating GDL’s Pathways to Political Science summer internship program.
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Government’s
invisible hand in
developing
countriesMIT political scientist and Global Diversity Lab Affiliate, Noah Nathan’s new book, “The Scarce State,” looks at the way seemingly minimal state oversight in rural Ghana has actually had profound effects on society. In the book, Nathan studies three types of state actions in rural Ghana: the use of traditional chiefs as local government surrogates,…
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Mai Hassan speaks
to The New Yorker
about SudanRead Global Diversity Lab Member Mai Hassan’s interview with Isaac Chotine of The New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-failed-coup-proofing-behind-the-recent-violence-in-sudan
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GDL Faculty Affiliate
Mai Hassan featured in
MIT NewsIn an MIT News Faculty Profile Mai Hassan talks about her research on bureaucracies, regime changes and civil society in East Africa. She also shares how she came to studying political science and state machinery. Mai joined MIT’s Political Science Department in July of this year and is an active participant in GDL’s projects and…
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GDL Faculty Affiliate
Noah Nathan
featured in
MIT NewsIn MIT News’ recent faculty profile on Noah Nathan talks about what drew him to studying urban transformations in Accra, Ghana and his recent book “Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana”. Noah joined MIT’s Political Science Department in July of this year and is an active participant in GDL’s projects…
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Climate
Research
in the NewsResearch demonstrates that climate change disproportionately affects disadvantaged groups. How can we minimize the impact? GDL Director Evan Lieberman recently spoke with MIT News to discuss a research proposal (co-authored with Danielle Wood and Siqi Zheng) aimed at reducing these disparities. The proposal was a finalist in MIT’s first-ever Climate Grand Challenge. Read the interview…
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MIT News
InterviewFresh off the press: MIT News interviews GDL Director Evan Lieberman to discuss the future of international education and the unique opportunities provided by MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives). The full interview is available here.