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A landmark ruling in India not only decriminalizes same-sex relations but sees them as part of the natural human order. It could put into motion the reevaluation of colonial-era laws that police sexuality across the former British Empire. Professor of...

How does perceived vulnerability to crime pervade politics, markets, and democracy? Professors Jean and John Comaroff compare the United States to South Africa. Jean and John Comaroff, professors in the Departments of African and African American Studies...

Four scholars contextualize India’s controversial citizenship amendments within the history of imperial rule, mobility, and itinerancy in South Asia. By Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Lydia Walker In the second week of December 2019...

A historian spotlights the backstories of nationalist groups that were passed over during the post-World War II wave of decolonization. By Lydia Walker Twentieth-century global decolonization changed the map. In the thirty years after the Second World War...

A case study in best practices, Rwanda’s commitment to cancer treatment demonstrates how a state can utilize private resources while safeguarding national ownership. By Darja Djordjevic Darja Djordjevic, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Weatherhead...

India's 100 million internal migrant workers are now stranded under COVID-19 lockdown measures and cannot return home. Faculty Associate Sai Balakrishnan maps the pathways of migrant laborers and describes the policies that created an east-west divide. By...