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Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.

Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute

News
& Media

VoxDev / 04.30.25

What Mobile Data Can Tell Us about Religion in Conflict Zones

Pearson Professor Oeindrila Dube and co-authors discuss their research measuring religious adherence with cell phone data in Afghanistan. 

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Kabul, Afghanistan
Harris News / 02.17.25

Research on Campaign to Eliminate Chagas Disease

Assistant Professor Eduardo Montero explores the results of a Chagas disease campaign in Brazil in new working paper. 

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Eduardo Montero Headshot
UChicago News / 12.05.24

Nobel Laureate Finds his ‘Calling’ in Studying the World

UChicago Professor James A. Robinson’s decades of research have shaped our understanding of economic inequality. 

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Professor Robinson in his home

University of Chicago News

02.08.23

Examining the war in Ukraine, one year after Russian invasion

​​​​​​As we approach the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Harris Policy sat down with Pearson Faculty Affiliate Konstantin Sonin to discuss the state of the war and what comes next.

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Reader

02.07.23

RICJ Racial Justice Writers’ Room Launches

Pearson Fellow Reema Saleh, MPP'23, was selected for the first Racial Justice Writers' Room cohort organized by Reader Institute for Community Journalism at Chicago Reader. 

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Wall Street Journal

01.20.23

Shining a Light (Literally) on How Much Dictators Manipulate Their Economic Stats

Using satellite imagery, Pearson Faculty Affiliate Luis Martinez studies nighttime light as a proxy for economic growth. His findings were featured in the Wall Street Journal by Josh Zumbrun in “The Numbers." (Paywall). 

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Western Wall

Harris Public Policy students visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem as part of the 2019 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Israel and the West Bank.

Ramin Kohanteb / The Pearson Institute