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A thank you letter to the Humphrey Fellows
Classes for the 2024 fall semester might have officially started August 26th, but for me, they started on August 12th–the day that most of this year’s Humphrey Fellows arrived in Ithaca. My experience with the Fellows has changed my life; the...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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As a kid, Ben Quint loved maps. It’s almost literary, atlases in a Pittsburgh living room evolving into first-hand explorations. But it’s true—Ben has both the baby pictures and the curriculum vitae to prove it. Now a sophomore in Global...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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Ijeoma Seraphie Obiedelu, a peacebuilder whose work seeks to innovatively confront gender-based inequalities and violence in Nigeria, earned the 2025 Ronny Adhikarya Niche Award (RANA), the Department of Global Development announced today. The...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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A landmark new report, launched today by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES), offers decision-makers around the world the most ambitious scientific assessment ever undertaken of these complex...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Climate Change
  • Food
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Eight student delegates from the New York Youth Institute joined 162 other delegates at the 2024 Global Youth Institute, an educational conference for high school students hosted annually by the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines, Iowa...
  • Department of Global Development
  • Global Development
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Seminar

Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence
Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Seminar Creating Peaceful Coexistence in a Context of Chronic Violence: Masculinity, Intimate Violence, and Everyday Reconciliations in Post-conflict Burundi with Emily Hillenbrand...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
Mushahid Hussain

Seminar

Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Mushahid’s historical sociology study of decolonization addresses enduring questions of how and why the reproduction of colonial hierarchies of power and privilege in the...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Seminar

Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract In his exit seminar Mike Bishop will explore the vibrant stories shared with him by White anti-racist allies living in the North Country of New York state. Taking a...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development
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Seminar

Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series Abstract In this talk, Bobby J. Smith II briefly outlines the key interventions of his book, Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Agriculture & Food Systems
Emily Baker

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Ph.D. Exit Seminar in the Graduate Field of Development Studies Abstract Emily Baker’s doctoral dissertation is guided by the central question of how we can read changes in environmental landscapes as connected with compounding crises in...
  • global development
  • Global Development
  • Department of Global Development