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Brown Daily Herald
Brown anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte awarded MacArthur grant
She will use the $800,000 grant to conduct research on extraditions of organized crime leaders.
News from CHRHS
Student Spotlight: Mustapha Kharbouch ‘27
Mustapha Kharbouch '27 reflects on their summer internship experience at the International Crisis Group (ICG) in New York City.
Brown University professor and cultural anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte is one of this year's MacArthur fellowship winners for her work exploring political and moral ambiguities of border regions.
October 8, 2025
News from Brown
Brown University anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Jusionyte, a cultural and legal anthropologist who leads the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, won an $800,000 grant to advance her work.
As the school enters its inaugural year, the centers’ directors are developing new initiatives.
April 24, 2025
News from Watson
Ieva Jusionyte Awarded the 2025 Salomon Award in Social Sciences
Brown University’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded Ieva Jusionyte a Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award in social sciences for her project titled “Extradition: Can Justice Be Exported?”
News from CHRHS
Student Spotlight: Elena Bernardi
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Faculty Spotlight: Poulami Roychowdhury
March 11, 2025
News from Brown
Brown experts discuss: What did the world learn from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Eight scholars from Brown University looked back at the pandemic with an eye toward how its lessons can help the United States and other nations prepare for the next global health crisis.