Current Fellows

Summer, scandal and day-to-day pluralism in Paris

  • August 3, 2018
  • Karina Piser

A stroll through the city’s 11th arrondissement.

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Thriving cults are harming young people in Nigeria

  • July 23, 2018
  • Onyinye Edeh

Four years after the Chibok kidnapping, little has been done to to protect Nigerians from a militant group that is upending life for millions.

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In China, country people in a land of drastic change

  • July 13, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

Rural Chinese are adapting to transformation unlike anything seen before. These are some of their stories.

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The Nation: Karina Piser on a thwarted terrorist plot and deep-rooted Islamophobia in France

  • July 12, 2018
  • ICWA

The reaction may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe.

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The New Republic: Matt Chitwood on rural Chinese attitudes toward the US

  • July 6, 2018
  • ICWA

As Washington launches a trade war with Beijing, China's farmers see US tariffs as an act of aggression.

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Does an ‘ultra-right’ vigilante group reflect the French national mood?

  • July 6, 2018
  • Karina Piser

Reaction to a terrorist threat may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe.

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France’s experience with terrorism has upended conceptions about free speech

  • July 5, 2018
  • Karina Piser

As secularism and Charlie Hebdo become sacred, any criticism of the Republic is considered a threat.

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Realpolitik in rural China

  • June 14, 2018
  • Matthew Chitwood

What Chinese villagers think about a looming trade war.

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US ‘criminalizing and dehumanizing’ migrants

  • June 13, 2018
  • ICWA

Watch highlights from ICWA's panel "The migration cycle: The US role in Latin American migration."

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Karina Piser speaks at Anglophone library in Angers

  • June 12, 2018
  • Karina Piser

Outlines how the debate around secularism has evolved in the wake of recent terrorism in France.

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