Author Archives: Olivia Grinberg-Phillips

On May 24th, 2021, PassBlue published an interview with Séverine Autesserre discussing her new book, The Frontlines of Peace. You can find it here.

On May 11th, 2021, the BBC World News flagship NewsDay radio program included an interview with Séverine Autesserre discussing her new book, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World. The interview begins at 44:30. You can listen here.

The Office of the Provost has awarded Page Fortna a Faculty Mentoring Awards for 2021. The Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes three senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with tenure-track and mid-career faculty in developing their careers. Exceptional mentoring can include offering advice, feedback and guidance on research activities, coaching on […]

Saltzman Institute member Séverine Autesserre has been awarded the 2021 Emily Gregory Teaching Award. The Emily Gregory Award, named after the first female full professor at Columbia University, is Barnard’s only student-nominated and -selected teaching award. It acknowledges one Barnard faculty member each year for teaching excellence, devotion, and service to Barnard students.

On May 7th, 2021, the UK magazine, The Week, released a podcast which includes an in-depth discussion and debate among four journalists of Séverine Autesserre’s new book, The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World. You can listen to the podcast here. The segment begins at approx. minute 15.

On May 6th, 2021, Tamar Mitts had a new article in International Organization entitled, “Countering Violent Extremism and Radical Rhetoric.” You can read more here.

Saltzman Student Scholar Sydni Scott has an essay in the Spring Issue of the Yale Review of International Studies, entitled “Incentives to Stay Home? Why Foreign Aid Cannot Function Effectively to Deter Immigration or Address ‘Ethnic Hierarchy.”’ You can read it here.

On April 28, 2021, Rajan Menon had a new piece in The Nation entitled, “The End of the War in Afghanistan Is in Sight.” You can read it here.

WASHINGTON 4/26/21 — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members, including Professor Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics. Of the electees — 59 are women, the most elected in a single year — and 30 are international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements […]

V. Page Fortna has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can read more here.