When Hurricane Helene struck Asheville, North Carolina, Feinstein Research Assistant Professor Merry Fitzpatrick experienced the devastation firsthand. As a humanitarian researcher and former full-time humanitarian worker, Fitzpatrick drew parallels between…

Engaging refugees as researchers — including as interviewers, interpreters, and enumerators — can improve the quality of research. However, it can also pose risks for those refugees remaining in the…

On September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, leading to more than 230 deaths and leaving nearly 2 million people without power. In…

Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed increasingly oppressive laws, particularly targeting the freedoms of women and girls. A newly enacted “vice and virtue” law represents one…

It is with great sorrow that we acknowledge the passing of philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein of Cranston, RI on September 7, 2024. He was 93. Since the Friedman School’s founding…