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Introducing our 2026 Job Market Candidates! Learn more about those PhD candidates currently on the market:
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A new book from Princeton SPIA researcher Helen Milner predicts the southern hemisphere will take the lead on action addressing climate change’s effects. spia.princeton.edu/news/2026…
Professor Jan-Werner Müller to discuss architecture and politics with former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The debate will take place at the Urania Hall in Berlin and will focus on whether there can be a specifically democratic form of architecture. bit.ly/3TEtecR
Professor Jonathan Mummolo tapped to lead center for data-driven social science.
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Professor Melissa Lane will deliver her final lecture as the Professor of Rhetoric at the historic Gresham College in London on October 22, 2026. Register to watch the live stream of "Plato and the Truth About Rhetoric" here: gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/plato…
Princeton has established a new academic unit, Data and Intelligent Systems (DaIS), to strengthen its support for AI and data science scholarship, naming Arthur Spirling as co-chair. bit.ly/4hJ4zgt
One of the honorees was Politics alum Charles Hey-Maestre ’77 who spent his legal career fighting for the rights of underserved and marginalized people in Puerto Rico.
Prospect House spaces at Princeton dedicated for "exemplary individuals" who helped to shape the University and the world: bit.ly/4oEUh1f
ALT Eisgruber addressing a crowd from the podium inside the Alan Turing Garden Room
ALT Plaque for Oswald Veblen Terrace
ALT Class of 1980 graduate Sally Frank stands next to a photo of her as a Princeton student. The Sally Frank Café is named in her honor.
ALT The John Doar Dining Room
"Trump’s disfiguring the White House fits into a larger global trend: far-right populist leaders in many countries have used spectacular architecture to advance their political agenda and, more particularly, to set their vision of a “real people” – as in “real Americans”, “real Hungarians” et cetera – in stone." Jan-Werner Müller writes for @theguardianfeed theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Politics Professor and Dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs @PrincetonSPIA Amaney Jamal @AmaneyJamal presented "Dialogue in Action: Leading for the Public Good" as part of Princeton Graduate School's @PrincetonGrad Many Minds, Many Stripes conference. @princetonalumni #ManyMinds
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ALT Quote If the best and brightest are not serving, then who will serve and who will fill the vacuum? The realm of politics has lost its civility, and for politics to continue to do the job of a good society, we must work to bring civility back into politics. Amaney Jamal, Politics Professor and SPIA Dean
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“Africa must become a full participant in global knowledge production.” What events in the extraordinary life of @lwantchekon, from prison and torture in Benin to @Princeton, led him to found @ASE_Africa? And what can the next generation of African economists achieve?
Full episode here: voxdev.org/talks
Layna Mosley @LaynaMosley speaks with @NPR on tariffs impact on Diwali celebrations in the US.
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On this day 279 years ago, Princeton University was officially chartered.
ALT The word: "Happy Birthday, Princeton!"
Professor Leonard Wantchekon @lwantchekon Addresses the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs
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ALT Leonard Wantchekon
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Bobst-AUB Collaborative Initiative
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"Democrats therefore can make this an argument about democracy. Not only has a Republican-controlled government shut down, but the Republican-controlled Congress is simply handing power to Trump and letting him get away with the plainly illegal impoundment of funds approved by the legislature. This is not about this or that policy; it is about a chief executive governing according to his whims, with impunity and obvious disregard for the US Constitution." Professor Jan-Werner Müller writes for @ProSyn
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"Our Constitution doesn’t need gilded letters, since those would only be distractions from the true content." Abigail Anthony '23 @abigailandwords writes for National Review
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Our new @The_JOP paper shows discussions of diversity in gov can affect (and possibly distort) perceptions of government performance.
Stating e.g. 20% of an agency’s jobs are held by women (vs. 80% held by men) boosts perceptions that gov looks after women’s interests.
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My new paper in @The_JOP shows that arbitrary changes in how leaders talk about diversity in government affects perceptions of governance (joint w/ @jonmummolo and Madeleine Marr).
Women remain underrepresented in the bureaucracy, but rhetoric emphasizing even a small share of women bureaucrats can still impart the impression of substantive representation. E.g. stating that 20% of an agency's jobs are held by women (rather than 80% held by men) boosts perceptions that the agency is looking after women’s interests.
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