Current Fellows

Getting to the gaokao

  • July 17, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

The road to China’s brutal university entrance exam.

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The battle for a ‘French Islam’

  • July 12, 2019
  • Karina Piser

In an ideologically charged tug-of-war, divergent figures jockey over who best represents France’s Muslims.

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Saudi Arabia’s modernization gamble

  • June 21, 2019
  • David Kenner

Can the kingdom provide enough financial security to rewrite its basic social contract?

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Austria’s far right faces life after scandal

  • June 21, 2019
  • Emily Schultheis

The Freedom Party is betting voters will continue to back it.

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ICWA launches El Salvador fellowship

  • June 17, 2019
  • ICWA

Push factors leading to emigration and asylum seeking.

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In China, life and death by a river dammed

  • June 12, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

The state’s heavy hand still fosters rural dependence.

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The Atlantic: Karina Piser on perceptions of race in France

  • June 12, 2019
  • ICWA

Spectators boycott a performance in blackface.

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The Nation: Karina Piser on the European Left’s anti-immigrant turn

  • June 12, 2019
  • ICWA

In Denmark, the center left returned to power by moving to the right on immigration.

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Deutsche Welle Stammtisch: Emily Schultheis on podcast

  • June 5, 2019
  • ICWA

Populism: dirty politics or taboo-breaking bravery?

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When tribe meets tourist

  • May 30, 2019
  • Matthew Chitwood

China’s “last primitive tribal village” despoiled by cultural preservation.

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