Pardee Students See Global Governance and Challenges First-hand in Geneva
During the month of June 2026, students who were enrolled in BU’s study abroad class, IR 421/621, or “Global Governance and Global Challenges,” engaged with practitioners from eight international agencies — including the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization and the UN Human Rights Council, among others....
University of Chile Honors Professor Emeritus Jorge Heine
Ambassador Jorge Heine, former Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, has been appointed as Honorary Professor at the Institute of International Studies (IEI) at the University of Chile, one of Latin America’s oldest and most distinguished centers for the study of global affairs. Founded in 1966, the IEI has built a strong regional and international reputation for its interdisciplinary approach to international relations, examining political, legal, economic, and historical dimensions of global issues. Heine’s appointment reflects both his significant contributions to global policy scholarship and his longstanding ties to Chile’s premier academic institutions....
Lori Co-Edits Special Issue on Time, Migration, and Political Possibility
Professor Noora Lori co-edited a special issue of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press, 2026) that was published this June, and co-authored the introduction article titled “Mobile Temporalities and Political Possibilities: Expanding the Temporal Turn in Migration Studies.” Co-written with Anne McNevin (The New School for Social Research) and Loren B. Landau (University of Oxford), the introduction launches a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project that brings together scholars from politics, sociology, geography, and anthropology to rethink how time shapes, and is shaped by, human migration and mobility....
Rida Ali Awarded the Harold C. Case Scholarship
Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies is proud to announce that Rida Ali (BA ’27) has been awarded the prestigious Harold C. Case Scholarship for the 2026–2027 academic year. The Case Scholarship is one of the highest honors accorded to undergraduate students at BU, recognizing outstanding academic achievement, leadership, and scholarly potential. Ali is pursuing a double major in International Relations and Middle Eastern and North African Studies, with a minor in Arabic and Muslim Studies....
Urban Refuge Celebrates 10 Years and Unveils New Website
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....
From Protest to Polarization: A Collaborative Study of the Reopen Movement
Protests and Radicalization in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement, published by Cambridge University Press, examines how social movements emerge, evolve, and radicalize in an era shaped by social media and digital infrastructure. The book is the result of a deeply collaborative, interdisciplinary effort between Boston University faculty and alumni. Together, they combine political science, data science, and computational analysis to offer a nuanced account of the “Reopen” movement during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Co-authors include Pardee’s own Professor Jeremy Menchik and Clara Martiny (BA IR ’21) as well as several Boston University affiliates such as Dr. Gianluca Stringhini, Associate Professor at the College of Engineering; Dr. Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS); Pujan Puadel, Doctorate Recipient in Computer Engineering; and Seth Soderborg, SNS Analytics....
Isabel Silagy (MA IR and Security Studies ’25) Co-Authors Chapter in Oxford Handbook on International Norms
Pardee School graduate Isabel Silagy (MA IR and Security Studies ’25) co-authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Norms Research in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2025), published in December 2025. The chapter, titled “Norms, Legitimacy, and Compliance: Between International Law and Politics,” was written with co-author Ezgi Yildiz and appears as Chapter 3 in the volume, which brings together leading scholarship on how norms function in global politics....
Anna Trissa’s Growing Footprint in Global Economic Research
For Anna Trissa (MA GP ’26), the transition from graduate study at the Pardee School to the fast-paced world of policy research has been both immediate and transformative. Now interning with the Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., Trissa is already contributing to substantive policy conversations on economic development, technology, and governance through both her professional and published work....
Kaitlynn Cherry (Pardee ’27) Selected to Represent the US at 2026 APEC Youth Engagement Workshop
Kaitlynn Cherry (Pardee ’27, BA International Relations & Affairs and Chinese) has been awarded a fellowship to participate in the 2026 APEC Youth Engagement Workshop, organized by the Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston on behalf of the Taiwan Ministry of Education. Each APEC member economy is permitted to nominate just two participants, with Cherry being nominated by Professor Min Ye and will be representing the United States in the workshop taking place in Taipei, Taiwan in late June/early July....
Students Present Research in Pardee’s First Public Defense Forum
On April 16 and 17, the Pardee School of Global Studies hosted the 2026 Defense Forum where students for the first time ever presented their research in a conference-style format. Departing from the traditional closed-door setup, students publicly defended their work before faculty advisors and an additional reviewer, with peers and supporters in the audience....
Nolan’s ‘Until I Find You’ Awarded for its Contribution to Guatemalan History
Until I Find You, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 2024 publication by Professor Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International History, was recently given two awards which recognizes its deeply researched account of Guatemala’s international adoption industry, tracing how a system framed as humanitarian became entangled in inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. The first recognition comes from the Latin American Studies Association, giving it the Best Book Award on Recent History and Memory, a biennial honor highlighting outstanding scholarship on the region’s past. It also earned the Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize from the New England Council on Latin American Studies, ...
Schilde Receives EURYDICE Grant to Explore EU’s Role as a Global Security Actor
Professor Kaija Schilde recently received the EURYDICE (EURopean SecuritY and Defense: Industry, Capacity, and Evolution) grant, which builds on the momentum of the 2021–2024 Jean Monnet Chair in European Security and launches a three-year program of teaching, research, and public engagement focused on the European Union’s (EU) evolving role as a global security actor. ...